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Scientists create never-before-seen form of matter (light sabers, anyone?)
Phys.org ^
| 9/25/13
Posted on 09/25/2013 3:40:05 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Was it green, blue, or red? We need to know if any of these MIT personnel are Sith.
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posted on
09/25/2013 3:47:57 PM PDT
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: LibWhacker
oh good.
Can we also get the exploding rays from Flash Gordon? Just simple antimatter light?
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posted on
09/25/2013 3:48:34 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of the Muslim Brotherhood))
To: Hardraade
Photon torpedos are right around the corner!
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posted on
09/25/2013 3:54:33 PM PDT
by
Ken522
To: LibWhacker
Harvard Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin
Must be a distant relative.
From the smart side of the family that dropped the r.
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posted on
09/25/2013 3:57:29 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
I find your lack of faith disturbing..
To: LibWhacker
Lukin also suggested that the system might one day even be used to create complex three-dimensional structures such as crystals wholly out of light. Is he saying that they've created matter out of photons?
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posted on
09/25/2013 3:58:47 PM PDT
by
HeartlandOfAmerica
(Obama&Admin=An army of deer, led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer)
To: LibWhacker; neverdem
Very interesting!
(..and Neverdem, you deserve your own ping occasionally.)
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posted on
09/25/2013 4:04:33 PM PDT
by
Weirdad
(Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communofascism!))
To: LibWhacker
In all seriousness, this makes no sense.
The discovery, Lukin said, runs contrary to decades of accepted wisdom about the nature of light. Photons have long been described as massless particles which don't interact with each other shine two laser beams at each other, he said, and they simply pass through one another.
Massless particles ? really ?
Wouldn't that be a direct challenge to Einstein's theory ?
How could gravity affect something that has no mass ?
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posted on
09/25/2013 4:06:05 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
To: Ken522
To: Zeneta
Wouldn't that be a direct challenge to Einstein's theory ? How could gravity affect something that has no mass ? That's the whole point of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. Gravity is essentially a manifestation of the curvature of space-time, which affects everything, including photons.
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posted on
09/25/2013 4:10:32 PM PDT
by
thesharkboy
(posting without reading the article since 1998)
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posted on
09/25/2013 4:16:18 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
To: LibWhacker
then used lasers to cool the cloud of atoms to just a few degrees above absolute zero. Using extremely weak laser pulses, they then fired single photons into the cloud of atoms.
i would truly like to understand how lasers and cool something let alone how to loose a single photon from a source...
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posted on
09/25/2013 4:19:27 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
09/25/2013 4:23:33 PM PDT
by
pallis
To: thesharkboy
That's my point.
Photons have long been described as massless particles which don't interact with each other
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity says that they do interact with each other.
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posted on
09/25/2013 4:28:52 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
To: LibWhacker
From a howstuffworks
"What if all particles have no inherent mass, but instead gain mass by passing through a field? This field, known as a Higgs field, could affect different particles in different ways. Photons could slide through unaffected, while W and Z bosons would get bogged down with mass. In fact, assuming the Higgs boson exists, everything that has mass gets it by interacting with the all-powerful Higgs field, which occupies the entire universe."
Is this pertinent?
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posted on
09/25/2013 4:30:36 PM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: Ken522
When our grandkids say molon labe, they’ll be talking about their light sabers!
To: Chode
You sound like me: wishing you had taken more physics!
To: LibWhacker
yup, HS and one semester in college was NOT enough...
i'm sure we could understand it if explained, i just can't suss it out on my own
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posted on
09/25/2013 4:39:18 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Zeneta
It does so by distorting space - the old steel ball on a rubber membrane example.
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posted on
09/25/2013 4:40:32 PM PDT
by
Aevery_Freeman
(Tried to tell 'em Affirmative Action was a bad idea...Now look what happened!)
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