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MrRandom93
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kingbudo101
so combine them with 3d printers and watch the world economy crumble away
FrankDuMemes
Looks like Facebook clickbait
konelhft
In brightest day...in blackest night...no evil shall escape my sight
menshi
In blackest day or brightest night Cantaloupe, watermelon, yadda yadda A superstitious and cowardly lot With Liberty and Justice for all!
BishlamekGurpgork
Sauce: http://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-are-creating-lasers-so-powerful-they-could-tear-matter-out-of-empty-space/
avertyereyes
Next step towards immortality right there.
Wombatant
Knowing humanity, probably just immorality.
southsidejohnny
Didn't overwatch/halo predict this?
GodOfTheBumbleBees
Scifi often uses objects made from "hard"light; This is about using energy to create matter-antimatter pairs with a huge ass laser.
JustARegularOldPotato
Forerunners?
Bigjohn01
Roses are red, worn clothing can tatter
Ryanator50
the color green can't be a coincidence.
ProLurker47
Hard.... Light?
GoldenRamoth
So um. Link?
FoxySpirit
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/physicists-are-planning-build-lasers-so-powerful-they-could-rip-apart-empty-space More thorough.
pirocks2
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_4-8-2016-11-5-15?hootPostID=c22436d4294e3ddd13ba16b78c10181e
GoldenRamoth
Thank you! I appreciate a reputable source. IFLS has been wrong too often when I read it for me to trust anymore.
Youareobscure
damn, this would mean we could have something nearly as good as room temperature super conductors coming from this someday
BishlamekGurpgork
http://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-are-creating-lasers-so-powerful-they-could-tear-matter-out-of-empty-space/
qwopguy
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AnExpertInThisField
... looks clickbaity, to me.
BishlamekGurpgork
Don't know the truth of it, but that's probably OP's source.
FoxySpirit
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/physicists-are-planning-build-lasers-so-powerful-they-could-rip-apart-empty-space Better?
AnExpertInThisField
Yes. Yes it is. Has a lot more information than "THere's some places that are gonna rip matter out of absolute nothingness!" Thank you.
Deptdint
No one else is concerd that it looks like the Disney emblem??
kcoder122
But light already is matter....
twozerooz
Hadrons are matter. Photons are non-hadron bosons.
MOTHERFUCKINGLUCIFERMORNINGSTAR
This title is misleading. What's actually happening is the binding of light to an electron to make light behave like normal matter. 1/2
MOTHERFUCKINGLUCIFERMORNINGSTAR
This is really only immediately practical in electronics that perform quantum computing and to study how things work on a subatomic level.
LethalNut
Clickbait overhype.
BelmontLeather
kcoder122
If something exists in any way it is considered matter.
n8crafter
No, only things with rest mass and volume are. Light has neither.
pyrrhlis
But... no.
PhysicistInHiding
I disagree. Leptons and almost certainly Quarks are matter. Photons are charge carriers, a quantization of the local strength of an EM field
w0ntoan
Uhm, isn't the force generated by photons how this works? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers
LiamNeesonOfficial
I have a feeling this is scenario is so specific it's a semantics debate. Can an argument be made for either point?
GodOfTheBumbleBees
High energy physics doesn't have a THE definition for matter anymore; But that doesn't mean force carriers can be called matter.
Selerox
I'm going to smile, nod and pretend I know what that sentence meant.
BigBear8486
But Light Matters to me
Paparelo
its just the next tide pod..
Ultimaniac
Wait, So China is making a death ray?
UnflippedCoin
Ride the lightning!
NinjaBananaDennis
It matters Karen
mikayeld90
Isn't light already matter? Photons?
EmilinRose
pic 2 is exactly how we'll use it
OnePunchGonz
Light Sabers!!!!!
twozerooz
Lol no unfortunately nothing so interesting
OnePunchGonz
wooliebooger
ThatTwerkingWhoreFromOliveGarden
Nyooom nyoom nyoom nyoom
shadowmore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC6Z9tKYCf4
princeaizen
Huuuuuummmmm
beng98
That was my first thought as well!!!
TheBlackestKey
The problem is as far as I know we have no way of stopping light after a certain distance. So more of a lightpole then a lightsaber.
OnePunchGonz
djsdkdjsk
oh look, a lightsaber made from light *impales someone 5 miles away*
ThePastmaster
Light sabres are plasma blades, not lasers.
azraelsorrow
Lul, I tried to explain this and got downvoted XD people don't want the truth.
FriendlyNeighborhoodLoner
Technicalities.
JAC0BY
OnePunchGonz
Preservation
I never understood either explaination, tbh. Neither a magnectly contained plasma nor a laser beam would interact with another sword as 1/2
Preservation
as if either was made of iron 2/2
ThePastmaster
I always heard it wasn't the blade itself but the containment fields keeping the blade intact bouncing on one another.
ThePastmaster
Not necessarily magnetic, but a field of some kind.
azraelsorrow
My preferred explanation that is used in a few books is that there's a plasma beam contained inside a phase shield. (phase shields allow 1/?
azraelsorrow
solid matter to pass through but not any other kind) and then each blade is a beam of a slightly different "frequency", for lack of a 2/?
azraelsorrow
term, and this allows them to "collide". The "frequency" is based of the unique shape/design of the focusing crystal. 3/3
azraelsorrow
That's not how lightsabers work.
SendMePicturesOfYourDog
This is the first prototype
KobeBurger
Hey now, don't down vote this. Why would light sabers work that way? Doesn't make any sense. They're light sabers not solid sabers.
azraelsorrow
Hey, thanks for that. I kinda confused as to why I'm getting downvoted myself. This is literally not how lightsabers work XD
OnePunchGonz
Please, do go on. I'd love to have you explain to me how a make believe item works
azraelsorrow
Just because it's not real doesn't mean there's not fictional science behind it. Lightsabers are plasma directed into a beam. Not solid.
OnePunchGonz
That's those alternative facts huh
azraelsorrow
I mean, it's canon to the Star Wars universe. So, not alternative. Not gonna debate that with you XD Have a good one. Done here.
pyrrhlis
They only collide with each other because of the magnetic fields that hold the plasma in shape.
azraelsorrow
Exactly! Some books say that there's a phase shield that contains the plasma which solid matter could pass through, but those are rare.
veritas1980
@OP first step in matter-energy conversion, which will effectively end world hunger.
Bancheis
Don't be ridiculous. There is no money in that. First step would be manufacture tons of gold without telling anyone it works. Then profit.
veritas1980
problem with that is you saturate the market the value of gold goes down. you make small amounts of different valuable substances.
isildur
Actual article: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/physicists-are-planning-build-lasers-so-powerful-they-could-rip-apart-empty-space
MoistFrenchFries
Light bridges from Portal 2 will be a thing?
thatSteveFan
I realize this probably wasn't a serious question, but E = m c ^2, meaning it'd take am absurd amount of energy.
Pixel8yt
Star trek replicators
ExcelionPrime
Halo had them first: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Light_bridge
Wombatant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifr%C3%B6st
rosyfingereddawn
Lucasarts's "The Dig" from 1995 did them first, and with a bunch of corny puns to boot!
TheMostSolidSnake
Welcome to getting old, you see the same shit come out, and get referenced as if it was the first time.
SquidJesus
Halo didn't do it first either. Welcoming to being young, you see shit you think is getting ripped off when it's actually a rip-off.
TheMostSolidSnake
That was my point. lol We are as guilty of it as the next, and the next.
FoxySpirit
Actual article: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/physicists-are-planning-build-lasers-so-powerful-they-could-rip-apart-empty-space
shadedmaw
So, hard light? That could be super useful.
Seventytonsofmettle
YES, LIKE LIGHT SABRES!!
goflyblind
Excalibuttster
In brightest day In blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might, beware my power GREEN LANTERN'S LIGHT
TheMasterDB8er
Whats yours is mine, its mine! Its mine! Its mine! its mine! It’s all mine! -Orange lantern
MexicanCatFur
I just like how it has no fall-off damage, and the ricochet rounds are pretty cool
Arcian
[main menu chanting intensifies]
MrRandom93
SpecialProjectY
TheCouldHaveBeenKing
Energy swords anyone?
DrKriegersClone
I have a feeling this might be a less than 100% accurate headline though
twozerooz
No not even close. Its literally just talking about e=mc2, creating something like hydrogen from energy
FourGreenFields
If I'd have to guess, it's creating very high energy-density, so matter spontaneously forms out of the energy. So yea, not really controlled
FriendlyNeighborhoodLoner
WHO CARES? IT SOUNDS COOL!
PandoBox
it is not even that, its creating 'virtual' pair of positron-eletron that are only a transition state and exist only under the planck time
PandoBox
which are basically convenience for mathematical calculus, these are artefacts from the method
Pentacus
If you rub it on your cheek, it feels like being outside in the sun! Don't actually do it though because it will also set your hair on fire.
ISayIdontLikeSandWhenISeeSand
Hehe. Love portal
Thoraxe123
At some point during these tests, you may gave noticed that your blood has become pure gasoline. That's normal.
ctzn07
I'm concerned about adding mass to something that travels at lightspeed by default
rezpawner
That's only in vacuum. We can still fuck around with it here on Earth :)
justsomeboi
E=mc^2. By dimensional analysis matter and energy are two interpretations of the same thing. Light is energy, so it becomes a normal particl
YouThinkThatsBad
Just stop it
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twozerooz
It happens in reverse all the time.
theonetruetom
heavy breathing cat is my favorite cat tax
Immovable0bject
Holodecks... soon
TheMightOfChondria
But I thought matter cannot be created or destroyed.
DirectorBright
The complete rule is "Matter AND ENERGY cannot be created or destroyed, only converted into other forms." And matter IS energy.
residenthyperchondriac
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, but you can convert from one to the other (like nuclear reactors do).
ArdentSlacker
my worldview was shattered by finding out nuclear reactors... are steam engines. No, really.
gecko08
Matter and energy are two sides of the same coin. They can be converted in to each other under the right circumstances. Like nuclear fission
squishofdoom
Matter is compressed energy. Matter cant be destroyed, but it can turn into energy, and vice versa.
SpringToMyWinter
Converting light into matter isn’t creating it, it’s condensing light enough to become solid.
iloves99
Essentially the Big Bang
DrKriegersClone
* briefly. Electron-positron pairs will recombine into a gamma ray wavelength photon quite quickly.
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DerWolf1309
It doesn't have mass itself, but it can be converted into matter.
RedClaws23
Physicist here, that's close to right, but ends up being wrong three times over. Light is a form of energy. It can take on the properties of
RedClaws23
both particles and waves but is constructed of neither. Particles and waves are both kinds of energy. Matter is a kind of energy that can
RedClaws23
take on both particle and wave-like states, but is defined by having mass.
AtomicPotato7
Assuming you aren't aware (as most aren't) matter is just stored energy (approximated by E = mc^2)
MrRandom93
Matter is just condensed frequencies right
RedClaws23
Only if you're a string theorist. I'm an Astrophysicist. Matter and radiation and dark energy are three forms of the same thing, like
RedClaws23
the states of matter. Just because you freeze water doesn't mean the total amount of water has changed, it's just solid now. Think of this
BishlamekGurpgork
I was reasonably sure that we still didn't quite know what dark energy is.
RedClaws23
article as saying that we can freeze light. Of course that's not at all what's happening and this article is leaping to unfounded conclusion
level100gastly
Maybe scientists have trancended alchemy...
RedClaws23
Alchemy is a real thing in modern science. I took a class from a guy who created a Ruby from a gaseous medium. That wasn't even his job or
RedClaws23
anything, his grad student was getting engaged so he made it to go on the ring. Materials Science is a thing.
PudgyPinkiePie
Well yeah ruby is just made out of a specific chemical. Make the chemical and you make a ruby. Same way how you can make cubic zirconium
RedClaws23
Welcome to the conversation
PudgyPinkiePie
Thanks mate. I went to university for the part where you figure out how to make a philosopher's stone without a human soul
goodbyeitwasfunwhileitlasted
Real life lightsabers could be possible with this technology....
azraelsorrow
That's not how lightsabers work though. They aren't solid.
GodOfTheBumbleBees
By "turn light into matter" they don't mean freezing light into a solid shape; But creating a cloud of matter/antimatter following e=mc^2
MrRandom93
Well we need ~ 35mw to power it so you need to connect thw hilt to an entire powerplant lol
goodbyeitwasfunwhileitlasted
If we were able to create Mjolnir armor from the halo series, we might be able to incorporate it into that suit. It holds a fusion reactor.
CallMeJerryBecauseIAmJerry
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/533/706/7ef.jpg
SquanchingonImgur
Technology is advancing.
TheSynder
And let's also not forget that it would instantly boil blood and turn a body into an explosive blood volcano in front of you.
EggFooYung
That's... actually better than a lightsaber.
MrRandom93
Heat can be contained in a magnetic field
BishlamekGurpgork
Not that kind of heat. The study used 7-Tesla magnets that had to be cooled to -450F, just to be able to get a measurable effect.
TheSynder
I like this guys description of what would happen. https://youtu.be/BRAyIXgWBWc
BestUsernameICouldThinkOf
So... Holodecks?
VitusApollo
Holodecks that blind you the second you open the door maybe.
Beelsebooob
Holodecks that EXPLODE you the second you open the door.
CastleIsGreat
Really hot holodecks.
Ryanator50
hopefully self cleaning ones
twozerooz
No. Just turning energy into a molecule like hydrogen
GodOfTheBumbleBees
... Turning energy into matter and antimatter. There's an important step missing, before that's even remotely useful.
Sneemaster
And teleporters
maribl
Hard light holograms :)
bsuu
TheGriffin
I don't even want to think of the how bad it's gonna be to clean those.
SlackerTactical
its time to du du du du du du du duel!!
HipHopRoboCop
This man is thinking of the big picture
Cptmike
Very hot, holodecks of fire.
cheeseguy3412
Computer: Boobs.
EggFooYung
Holodicks
Ryanator50
downloadable dildos
BigTex1
I give it 100 years and there’ll be some crackhead suckin’ holodick in an alley for a hit and a cheeseburger.
Ryanator50
why would an emergency medical hologram want a blowjob?
BigTex1
The question you should be asking is why would someone program him to want the blowjob.
Ryanator50
well he did tell holographic Andy Dick that he's had sex, and the Andy Dick Hologram seemed to want in on that.
BigTex1
Adaptable programming?
TheOne11111
Smart matter
tempestminded10
Probably more along the lines of replicators
cbale2000
I don't think the lasers are actually creating different elements (like a replicator), I think the idea is its basically "solid light".
Odmanra
1 step at a time!
SebastianSavage
*mumbles quietly* holoporn.
mbos14
this is how the human race is gonne die.
anonwhymouse
Vulcan Love Slave here i come!
Denvercoder09
"the holoshed came to life!" "last time that happened I got slapped with three paternity suites"
helagos
dot
Hutchy01
There's a principle for this: The first use of any new invention is sex. Build it and they will come.
justvenomcake
And then they will get there.
TheDino
*cum
afon
You work in IT and know the difference between API and SOA. Right?
Hutchy01
Not the first clue but someone will try dick the architectures.
Iq019283
The holosuites
StaalTheNotQuiteSoUndefeatedAnymoreButNevermind
The holosluts
TheDino
Holesluts.
TOTOAFRICA
The holocaust
Hutchy01
The Vulcan Love slave.
klukluxklydetheminor69er
i cant wait to fuck lazers
ArgonSpark
Slow down. Those lazers have rights, you son of a bitch.