Was it green, blue, or red? We need to know if any of these MIT personnel are Sith.
oh good.
Can we also get the exploding rays from Flash Gordon? Just simple antimatter light?
Harvard Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin
Must be a distant relative.
From the smart side of the family that dropped the r.
Is he saying that they've created matter out of photons?
Very interesting!
(..and Neverdem, you deserve your own ping occasionally.)
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 ?
Bookmarking.
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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"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?
But they didn’t answer the simple question: though two photons exit together, are they bound together in a tangible way, and do they remain bonded together?
John Donne already discovered this centuries ago
"Our eye-beams twisted, and did thread
Our eyes upon one double string."
a Double stream eye-beam
There ya go!
I dont know about the new state of matter?
“rubidium atoms into a vacuum chamber, then used lasers to cool the cloud of atoms to just a few degrees above absolute zero.”
They just slowed down two photons in a rubidium cloud at a non-sustainable temperature. Super cold fluorescent light?
I’m just not buying it.
“We do this for fun...” Lukin said.
Ahhh. Now I get it.
Think you’ll be interested in this.
Now if they could only create honest politicians....
