Researchers announce photon-phonon breakthrough

Phys.org ^ | City College of New York

[BenLurkin]

.....ping

[DannyTN]

Proton-phonon???

Are the protons talking?

[BenLurkin]

[eclecticEel]

You got your r’s and h’s mixed up.

[DannyTN]

"creating a new hybrid matter referred to as phonon-polaritons,

I once went out with a girl who had phonon-polaritons.

She could be talking to you and just as sweet and upbeat as you could possibly want. And 30 minutes later she was the polar opposite. Accusatory, hateful, a true horror show.

[BenLurkin]

You had me worried there for a second. Thought you were going to say she was a combo b cup c cup.

[DannyTN]

Phono means sound.

Phonem is the smallest distinct sounds in a language.

[DannyTN]

I could have fun with that.

[DannyTN]

I see, I did get my r’s and h’s mixed up.

Should have been photon-phonon, not proton-phonon.

[dynachrome]

Did they use Schrodinger’s cat for this?

[Deaf Smith]

Great!

Now the Climate Change crowd (Global Warming) will want to change direct sunlight into a sound of the Hildabeast screeching.

[Track9]

This is like the resonant sound weapon in the Dune movie.

[Bayard]

Wait is this a way for directional heat radiation using light?

Is this the take?

[BuffaloJack]

Sounds like something Alexander Graham Bell discovered in the later 1800s. Photo-acoustics. Shine a light on something and get an acoustic wave.

[ckilmer]

I don’t have enough bandwidth or time to absorb this.

Can you give the cliff notes?

[BenLurkin]

I don’t understand a word of it.

[tsomer]

just as sweet and upbeat as you could possibly want. And 30 minutes later she was the polar opposite.

I've had the same experience!

Ain't marriage grand!

[Beowulf9]

But they never came out and said what they can make from thiis.

[NetAddicted]

Peruse later.