Chalmers scientists create light from vacuum

Chalmers University Of Technology ^ | November 16, 2011

[decimon]

Let there be ping.

[Cold Heart]

I can rest easy at night knowing rough men are tracking photons.

PING

[mmichaels1970]

Hooray! Now I can “1-UP” my kid who told me all about the “neutrinos go faster than the speed of light” story today.

[VRW Conspirator]

...the vacuum is full of various particles that are continuously fluctuating in and out of existence....

Big deal! The last time I was abducted by aliens, they told me all about that.

[Imnidiot]

That really is something...to take an impeller, a belt, a bag, (and whatever else they used from the vacuum) and to create Light...what a wonder!

[andy58-in-nh]

It's been done.

[Pecos]

This could get into a whole “there never was nothingness” discussion, but that might exclude the Friday afternoon existentialists.

[AndrewC]

What happens during the experiment is that the “mirror” transfers some of its kinetic energy to virtual photons, which helps them to materialise

Sleight of hand. Cold fusion guys are pilloried for doing essentially the same thing.

[colorado tanker]

So, there is something in the heads of liberals, however fleeting?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The lights are on, but nobody's home.

[Hot Tabasco]

It's been done.

I could never figure out why my vacuum sweeper came with a light in the front, I never vacuum in the dark and don't know anyone who does......

[decimon]

Good to see you folk have been hoovering up all that knowledge there. ;-)

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“my kid who told me all about the “neutrinos go faster than the speed of light”

Tell him about Tachyons.

[240B]

Oh no. Don’t mess with tachyons..

Everyone knows that if you reconfigure the forward deflector array to emit an inverse tachyon pulse, you wind up going back in time. Normally to somewhere in 1960s.

Its a million to one shot, but every time I have seen it done it always works.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Obviously not, based on the occupods I’ve seen interviewed. It must be coming from somewhere else.

[hellbender]

At last we know why there is a light when we open the refrigerator door. The virtual photons become real ones.

[WVNan]

ROTFLOL. post of the day.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

30 years ago, I read an article about Tachyons in Scientific America. It was thought that Tachyons gained speed, but lost energy, due to collisions with other particles. It was theorized that some Tachyons had had some many speed-increasing collisions with other particles, that they were everywhere, all the time. Wiki actually covers them pretty well.