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#1 Sep 14 2014 at 9:44 PM Rating: Excellent
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Soon, you too may enjoy reliving famous events in history. Or, more likely, having "relations" with fictional partners. Okay, so soon may be the wrong word. But this scientific discovery means it's not impossible. At least, I think that's what it means.

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On a late summer afternoon it can seem like sunlight has turned to honey, but could liquid—or even solid—light be more than a piece of poetry? Princeton University electrical engineers say not only is it possible, they’ve already made it happen.

In Physical Review X, the researchers reveal that they have locked individual photons together so that they become like a solid object.

"It's something that we have never seen before," says Dr. Andrew Houck, an associate professor of electrical engineering and one of the researchers. "This is a new behavior for light."

The researchers constructed what they call an “artificial atom” made of 100 billion atoms engineered to act like a single unit. They then brought this close to a superconducting wire carrying photons. In one of the almost incomprehensible behaviors unique to the quantum world, the atom and the photons became entangled so that properties passed between the “atom” and the photons in the wire. The photons started to behave like atoms, correlating with each other to produce a single oscillating system.

As some of the photons leaked into the surrounding environment, the oscillations slowed and at a critical point started producing quantum divergent behavior. In other words, like Schroedinger's Cat, the correlated photons could be in two states at once.

"Here we set up a situation where light effectively behaves like a particle in the sense that two photons can interact very strongly," said co-author Dr. Darius Sadri. "In one mode of operation, light sloshes back and forth like a liquid; in the other, it freezes."

As cool as it is to produce solidified light, the team was not acting out of curiosity alone. When connected together the photons of light behave like subatomic particles, but are in some ways easier to study. Consequently, the team is hoping to use the solid light to simulate subatomic behavior.

Attempts to model the behavior of large numbers of particles usually use statistical mechanics, and often simplify by assuming no interaction between particles and a system at equilibrium. However, in a point we can all relate to, Houck and his colleagues note, “The world around us is rarely in equilibrium.” The solidified light offers a chance to observe a subatomic system as it starts to diverge from equilibrium, with potential for a basic understanding of how these systems operate.

The system created so far is very simple, with the light entangled with the atom at two points. However, it should be possible to increase this, greatly expanding the complexity and range of possibilities of what is being constructed.

As well as providing an easy-to-study model of atomic systems that actually exist, Houck and his team hope the frozen light could be made to behave like materials that do not exist, but have been hypothesised by physicists, allowing them to explore how these things would react if they were real.



#2 Sep 14 2014 at 11:36 PM Rating: Good
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Thus proving that poltergeists are real.




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#3 Sep 15 2014 at 4:47 AM Rating: Good
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I love reading the replies from all the armchair physicists below the article. They're all so much smarter than each other. Smiley: oyvey
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#4 Sep 15 2014 at 6:13 AM Rating: Good
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Isn't solidified light just matter, which stuff already is?

I don't get it. Smiley: confused
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#5 Sep 15 2014 at 6:17 AM Rating: Good
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Elinda wrote:
Isn't solidified light just matter, which stuff already is?

I don't get it. Smiley: confused


Projection. Holodecks. Force fields and shields. Tractor beams.

You have no imagination...

Edited, Sep 15th 2014 8:18am by TirithRR
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#6 Sep 15 2014 at 6:38 AM Rating: Good
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TirithRR wrote:
Elinda wrote:
Isn't solidified light just matter, which stuff already is?

I don't get it. Smiley: confused


Projection. Holodecks. Force fields and shields. Tractor beams.

You have no imagination...

Edited, Sep 15th 2014 8:18am by TirithRR
Can people fly in these holodecks?
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#7 Sep 15 2014 at 6:47 AM Rating: Decent
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A project named X, synthesizing fictitious materials...
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Elinda wrote:
TirithRR wrote:
Elinda wrote:
Isn't solidified light just matter, which stuff already is?

I don't get it. Smiley: confused


Projection. Holodecks. Force fields and shields. Tractor beams.

You have no imagination...
Can people fly in these holodecks?
It's like you've never watched Star Trek. Smiley: oyvey
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#9 Sep 15 2014 at 7:18 AM Rating: Excellent
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Not only do they need to work on this, but they need to loosen some of the safety procedures to involve some super power endowing accidents.
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#11 Sep 15 2014 at 8:05 AM Rating: Good
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**** witchcraft!

bloody.. "bloody" is censored! LOL

Edited, Sep 15th 2014 10:06am by Kelvyquayo
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#12 Sep 15 2014 at 8:09 AM Rating: Excellent
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Well, at least that *is* a mild expletive. That's one of the more rational filters, actually.
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#13 Sep 15 2014 at 8:18 AM Rating: Good
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I would at least expect something like "The filtering of this word isn't available in your region".
While I do know an American that regularly uses the word "bloody" as an expletive.. how dumb he sounds saying it is as much filter any Yanqee needs for that word.
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#14 Sep 15 2014 at 8:20 AM Rating: Excellent
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Out of curiosity, what is your country of origin?
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Maybe Google is just against the shedding of blood.
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Kelvyquayo wrote:
I would at least expect something like "The filtering of this word isn't available in your region".
While I do know an American that regularly uses the word "bloody" as an expletive.. how dumb he sounds saying it is as much filter any Yanqee needs for that word.


If Ron can say it all the time in Harry Potter I don't see what the big deal is.

Are fudge or frick or dang or darn censored?

Edited, Sep 15th 2014 10:44am by TirithRR
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TirithRR wrote:
Kelvyquayo wrote:
I would at least expect something like "The filtering of this word isn't available in your region".
While I do know an American that regularly uses the word "bloody" as an expletive.. how dumb he sounds saying it is as much filter any Yanqee needs for that word.


If Ron can say it all the time in Harry Potter I don't see what the big deal is.

Are fudge or frick or dang or darn censored?

Edited, Sep 15th 2014 10:44am by TirithRR

Haha, you're looking for patterns where there are none.

Google filter becomes more chaotic daily.

Btw, their were no holodecks in the Star Wars of my day. Anyways couldn't Q just fabricate entire planets?
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Elinda wrote:
Btw, their were no holodecks in the Star Wars of my day. Anyways couldn't Q just fabricate entire planets?


Smiley: dubious
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TirithRR wrote:
Elinda wrote:
Btw, their were no holodecks in the Star Wars of my day. Anyways couldn't Q just fabricate entire planets?


Smiley: dubious

Smiley: lol

It's all sorts of Monday. Smiley: grin
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Elinda wrote:
TirithRR wrote:
Elinda wrote:
Btw, their were no holodecks in the Star Wars of my day. Anyways couldn't Q just fabricate entire planets?


Smiley: dubious

Smiley: lol

It's all sorts of Monday. Smiley: grin


Smiley: eek Elinda.. honey.. (Lord, give me strength!)
I forgive you.... (Smiley: mad)


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United States (Balti-moran, born and raised)
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#21 Sep 15 2014 at 9:34 AM Rating: Good
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Kelvyquayo wrote:
Samira wrote:
Out of curiosity, what is your country of origin?

United States (Balti-moran, born and raised)


So that's you, me, Elne, and Jowin. I think we're the majority party on this forum.
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So that's you, me, Elne, and Jowin. I think we're the majority party on this forum.


Maybe we can all be the =4 cheerleaders when our great governor runs for PresidentSmiley: grin.
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#23 Sep 15 2014 at 9:46 AM Rating: Excellent
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To be fair, there were no holodecks when I saw Star Wars either so she's technically correct. Holograms were droid projected and flickered like 1970's television during a storm.

Edited, Sep 15th 2014 10:47am by Jophiel
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Elinda wrote:
Anyways couldn't Q just fabricate entire planets?


It seems that the Star Trek reality was actually Q's holodeck..

(and that the Mirror Universe was actually our universeSmiley: sly)

Edited, Sep 15th 2014 1:47pm by Kelvyquayo
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#25 Sep 15 2014 at 11:56 AM Rating: Good
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So what is the difference between a holodeck and this sort of thing?
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So what is the difference between a holodeck and this sort of thing?

That's just a hologram - though larger and without he Star Wars static problem.

I'm assuming you could walk right through that giant cartoon girl..like a ghost.





Edited, Sep 15th 2014 8:26pm by Elinda
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