It's been done.
Posted on 11/18/2011 1:19:49 PM PST by decimon
PRESS RELEASE: Scientists at Chalmers have succeeded in creating light from vacuum – observing an effect first predicted over 40 years ago. The results have been published in the journal Nature. In an innovative experiment, the scientists have managed to capture some of the photons that are constantly appearing and disappearing in the vacuum.
The experiment is based on one of the most counterintuitive, yet, one of the most important principles in quantum mechanics: that vacuum is by no means empty nothingness. In fact, the vacuum is full of various particles that are continuously fluctuating in and out of existence. They appear, exist for a brief moment and then disappear again. Since their existence is so fleeting, they are usually referred to as virtual particles.
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Let there be ping.
I can rest easy at night knowing rough men are tracking photons.
PING
Hooray! Now I can “1-UP” my kid who told me all about the “neutrinos go faster than the speed of light” story today.
Big deal! The last time I was abducted by aliens, they told me all about that.
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!
It's been done.
This could get into a whole “there never was nothingness” discussion, but that might exclude the Friday afternoon existentialists.
Sleight of hand. Cold fusion guys are pilloried for doing essentially the same thing.
So, there is something in the heads of liberals, however fleeting?
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......
Good to see you folk have been hoovering up all that knowledge there. ;-)
“my kid who told me all about the “neutrinos go faster than the speed of light”
Tell him about Tachyons.
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.
Obviously not, based on the occupods I’ve seen interviewed. It must be coming from somewhere else.
At last we know why there is a light when we open the refrigerator door. The virtual photons become real ones.
ROTFLOL. post of the day.
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.
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