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Photon interaction breakthrough
piercepioneer.com ^ | 11-3-14 | Deborah Grace

Posted on 11/03/2014 5:56:03 PM PST by BenLurkin

Photons generally do not interact with each other in free space but instead one passes through the other with no effect to either one. Vienna University of Technology researchers have made a significant and groundbreaking discovery in the field of quantum mechanics. A team of researchers has developed some unique hardware, which enable photons to interact. This hardware is composed of micro-thin fiber made of glass, which in turn attached to a device called a resonator.

The photon particle light can enter the resonator, moves in a circular fashion and then returns to the glass fiber. This change in pathways causes a phase inversion of 180 degrees. The researchers then attached a rubidium atom to the resonator preventing light form [sic] entering the resonator thereby preventing the oscillation phase of the proton from changing.

“It is like a pendulum, which should actually swing to the left, but due to coupling with a second pendulum, it swings to the right. There cannot be more extreme change in the pendulum’s condition”, said Professor Arno Rauschenbeutel, of Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics, TU Wien.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: light; photons; quantummechanics; stringtheory
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1 posted on 11/03/2014 5:56:03 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Analysis Spock?


2 posted on 11/03/2014 5:58:37 PM PST by IncPen (None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
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To: BenLurkin

So they managed to get light to swing both ways. Wonderful, now it will want to marry.

Or did I miss something? :)


3 posted on 11/03/2014 5:58:38 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Pointing out dereliction of duty is NOT fear mongering, especially in a panDEMic)
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To: NonValueAdded

Sounds about right.


4 posted on 11/03/2014 5:59:04 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: NonValueAdded

Are these AC or DC photons?


5 posted on 11/03/2014 6:00:42 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: NonValueAdded

Sounds like they’re crossing the beams - isn’t that bad?


6 posted on 11/03/2014 6:03:18 PM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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To: reed13k

I about wet myself laughing at that one.


7 posted on 11/03/2014 6:07:00 PM PST by Cherokee Conservative (If a tree falls over in the woods, and then snaps back upright as a joke, do the squirrels laugh?)
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To: Paladin2

Or AC/DC Photons?


8 posted on 11/03/2014 6:13:55 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: IncPen

“Captain, it appears to be some kind of miniature dirty snowman…scanning… scanning, the anomaly appears to consist of nasty slushy and blackened snow, origin: Austin Texas, an area that witnessed a small flurry of snow today, I suggest caution Jim.”
9 posted on 11/03/2014 6:14:46 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: BenLurkin

Isn’t this how a light saber works?


10 posted on 11/03/2014 6:17:11 PM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: IncPen

Right now all chips are limited by the speed of electrons.

This breakthrough means the speed of light would be limit.


11 posted on 11/03/2014 6:27:36 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
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To: Paladin2

So, is this going to be the power source for the flying car?


12 posted on 11/03/2014 6:38:13 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: The Antiyuppie
Nope, it's already gasoline:


13 posted on 11/03/2014 6:41:09 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: IncPen
Spock *was* an expert on photon interaction & rubidium crystals…
14 posted on 11/03/2014 6:47:21 PM PST by mikrofon (Laser BUMP)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

15 posted on 11/03/2014 6:53:14 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: IncPen

16 posted on 11/03/2014 6:59:44 PM PST by Bratch
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To: IncPen
Well, I tracked down this Phys Rev Letters Absract, which is forthrightly obscure, and contains the term "Rabi splitting", for which I find this explanation on Physics Forums.

I think in principle the ideas are of the same kind that one finds in solid state theory of cavities and defects and so on, but here they are striving to get control over things so they can build lattices of interactions on a quantum level.

To what end, I can't really say, because to me the whole idea of gaining control over the quantum realm is fundamentally hopeless, since it is axiomatic in Quantum Theory itself that this will not happen, as expressed by Quantum Uncertainty.

But what do I know?

17 posted on 11/03/2014 7:10:57 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: BenLurkin

So, with all due respect, this isn’t about two photons interacting, this is about two photons and an atom interacting. And no one has ever claimed that was difficult, let alone impossible.


18 posted on 11/03/2014 7:31:15 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks for the article. This is an interesting development and holds some potentially exciting applications.


19 posted on 11/03/2014 8:21:42 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Cherokee Conservative

It’s rare, but I try when I can LOL


20 posted on 11/03/2014 9:11:44 PM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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