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Frozen Light: Cool NASA Research Holds Promise
Science Daily | NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
| 2003-05-22
Posted on 05/22/2003 11:42:45 AM PDT by sourcery
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05/22/2003 11:42:45 AM PDT
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sourcery
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Libertarianize the GOP; Free the USA
FYI
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posted on
05/22/2003 11:43:14 AM PDT
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sourcery
(The Evil Party thinks their opponents are stupid. The Stupid Party thinks their opponents are evil.)
To: sourcery
>>...that literally stops light in its tracks...<<
All they did was put up a photo of Hillary Clinton.
Her ugly mug stops clocks, why not light?
To: sourcery
The 300k speed of light is in a vacuum.
There are several ways to slow light.
I do think light can also be raised in speed.
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posted on
05/22/2003 11:49:06 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(CCCP = clinton, chiraq, chretien, and putin = stalin wannabes (moore is goebbels))
To: tscislaw
SF story a few years back on "slow glass." You put sheets of this stuff out in a national park for a few years, or in the Grand Canyon, or other picturesque spot, and you had the image engraved over time IN the glass. You could then mount the glass in your living room window, and have several years of a simulated view of said beauty from your easychair. (I guess the downside was that after a few years, your neighbors would have years worth of pictures of you watching TV in your shorts and eating Cheese Poofs.)
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posted on
05/22/2003 11:52:35 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(Close the door! Are we cooling the entire neighborhood? And clean your room!)
To: sourcery; *RealScience; *tech_index; Sparta; freedom9; martin_fierro; PatriotGames; Mathlete; ...
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posted on
05/22/2003 11:57:58 AM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Recall Gray Davis and then start on the other Democrats)
To: sourcery
First, all things, matter and energy, vibrate. Cooling any thing, removes it's energy, it's vibration. If you could cool anything to ABSOLUTE ZERO, it would not exist.
Second, All perception is based on point of view. The speed of light is limited to 186,000 miles per second, but only in a limited area around your planetary system.
Your measurement of the UNIVERSE (What an egotistical term you humans use/as if you could even imagine the scale and magnitude needed to conceive the true size, and base your measurements on you being the center. HINT TO EARTHLINGS: there is no center) is based on the speed of light, therefore it is mostly, incorrect.
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05/22/2003 11:58:05 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
To: 50sDad
SF story a few years back on "slow glass." You put sheets of this stuff out in a national park for a few years, or in the Grand Canyon, or other picturesque spot, and you had the image engraved over time IN the glass. You could then mount the glass in your living room window, and have several years of a simulated view of said beauty from your easychair. (I guess the downside was that after a few years, your neighbors would have years worth of pictures of you watching TV in your shorts and eating Cheese Poofs.)I think I read the same story.....
Wasn't it called "memory glass" or something? The protagonist kept seeing a women holding a baby come to a window of a house, and it turned out the woman had died long before? I don't remember the plot, but I remember a few details. And I remember that I very much liked the story. Iggy
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05/22/2003 11:59:55 AM PDT
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Ignatz
(Scribe of the Unwritten Law)
To: UCANSEE2
So tell me, which is it that's used more often: Warp drive or transporters?
I think aliens use transporters more, as clearly there'd be more union rules and issues in constructing a warp core.
I could be wrong though.
To: sourcery
read later
To: 50sDad
Story by Larry Niven.
So9
To: Physicist
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posted on
05/22/2003 1:06:45 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: sourcery
When they shot a light pulse into the cloud, it bogged down, slowed dramatically, eventually stopped, and turned off. How'd they know where the photon was? Did it glow? (maybe a stupid question). Also, how could they tell the "stopped" light photon was really there, rather than its energy having been absorbed by the atoms? Is it that it continued in the same direction once restarted?
To: FourtySeven
Very sneaky, you humans. Think you can trick the answers out of us. If we wanted you to easily find which technology to develop to expand your breed thoughout the universe, we wouldn't have limited the speed of light in your area.
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05/22/2003 1:24:37 PM PDT
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UCANSEE2
To: Ignatz
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posted on
05/22/2003 1:28:28 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(Leftists view the truth as an easily avoidable nuisance)
To: 50sDad
Ping to #15.
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posted on
05/22/2003 1:29:23 PM PDT
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Interesting Times
(Leftists view the truth as an easily avoidable nuisance)
To: UCANSEE2
Very sneaky, you humans. Think you can trick the answers out of us. If we wanted you to easily find which technology to develop to expand your breed thoughout the universe, we wouldn't have limited the speed of light in your area.LOL..........ok, you got me there, but tell me, which are better, Romulan or Vulcan women? I hear that's quite a debate in some sectors of the galaxy. :)
To: sourcery
Instead of bouncing off each other like bumper cars, the atoms join together and function as one entity. Gaaack! Cold fusion! ;-)
To: Interesting Times
That was the story! Thank you so much!
Seems the whole site is very cool indeed!
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posted on
05/22/2003 1:51:50 PM PDT
by
Ignatz
(Scribe of the Unwritten Law)
To: tscislaw
All they did was put up a photo of Hillary Clinton...Her ugly mug stops clocks, why not light? The Little Rock Mafia heard that...they'll visit your abode around @ 3:30am sat. morning ... :)
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posted on
05/22/2003 2:05:58 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
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