[BenLurkin]

.....ping

[DannyTN]

Proton-phonon???

Are the protons talking?

[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.

[dynachrome]

Did they use Schrodinger’s cat for this?

[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?

[Beowulf9]

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

[NetAddicted]

Peruse later.

[Paal Gulli]

The “hexagonal boron nitride” (hBN) they used in this experiment is great stuff for D-I-Y slick-coated bullets, much better than the old stand-by, molybdenum misulfide (AKA Moly).