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Subject: Could light possibly be hardened?

*scratches nuts*

I read an article a while ago about some scientist that changed photons so they can repel each other. I'll try and find it again because it's really interesting, IIRC photons normally don't react to each other so when you change them so they can you could make solid objects or something


Looks like somebody already linked it, but whatever

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  • 12.05.2012 8:14 PM PDT

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Posted by: General Noobus
I read an article a while ago about some scientist that changed photons so they can repel each other. I'll try and find it again because it's really interesting, IIRC photons normally don't react to each other so when you change them so they can you could make solid objects or something

Interesting find! Although I think that if we were to be able to contain light and harden it into certain shapes, we'd probably have to have some kind of perimeter of the shape so that the light doesn't escape and can maintain its shape.

Maybe we could find a way to be able to have some preset shape programmed or hardwired into a device so that we don't need a physical border of the desired shape.

  • 12.05.2012 8:17 PM PDT

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Posted by: WrongLord

Posted by: mushroomman3rd
I'm pretty sure that photons are without mass, so no.


0 mass, literally. If you do the math.

OT: It's impossible.
But isn't mass based on energy output? So depending how much energy they produce wouldn't the mass increase? I don't know, correct me if i'm wrong.

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  • 12.05.2012 8:19 PM PDT

Mreh.


Posted by: MongotheRed

Posted by: ROFL Wolf1254
So what do you think? Could it be beneficial?


It's probably possible, but not at our current tech level.


Technology isn't the big issue here, it's that the way we currently understand the rules of the universe, Light does not have mass which is what expresses the quantity of matter. Without Mass it has no matter. It's not like Light is a gas and that we need only to exert low enough temperatures on it to make it solid, we really can't do anything with it except create it.

  • 12.05.2012 8:21 PM PDT

What is up with the Flood and hardlight technology?

It isn't even that cool.

  • 12.05.2012 8:21 PM PDT

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Posted by: Garem
What is up with the Flood and hardlight technology?

It isn't even that cool.

My Chem teacher gave a lecture today on light and how it's both a particle and a wave, and I kept thinking about the hard-light technology used in Halo and thought maybe the flood would like to discuss hard-light possibility and the science behind light itself.

  • 12.05.2012 8:22 PM PDT

Stop being a lazy ass and stop trolling through the forums, play video games!

I'm sorry, I took Phys Apps last year and my teacher wasn't exactly the best, and i'm in Biology right now. I'm also studying for my geometry test because of damn proofs. I have embarrassed myself plenty of times solely upon the fact that I joined when I was 12.

  • 12.05.2012 8:36 PM PDT

I want to live in a house made of light. I could put the walls wherever I want and move them whenever.

  • 12.05.2012 8:41 PM PDT

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Theoretically, yes. Light has relativistic mass.

  • 12.05.2012 8:45 PM PDT

yeah just freeze it.

  • 12.05.2012 9:00 PM PDT
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I'm sure if you stroke it the right way it could.

  • 12.05.2012 9:02 PM PDT

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Call me Rdog, not RdOG or RdOG1507. I made that username when I thought it was cool to use alternating capital and lowercase letters...

I don't think any of us are professional scientists

  • 12.05.2012 9:04 PM PDT

How to contain light.

1. Get a box.
2. Put mirror on every side of the inside of the box.
3. Flash a light in there for a second and quickly close the lid.
4 ???
6. PROFIT!

  • 12.05.2012 9:05 PM PDT

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Posted by: mr pie123
How to contain light.

1. Get a box.
2. Put mirror on every side of the inside of the box.
3. Flash a light in there for a second and quickly close the lid.
4 ???
6. PROFIT!


Genius!

Also, you missed step 9 in between steps 4 and 6.

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Posted by: RdOG1507
I don't think any of us are professional scientists


I graduated top of my class in astronaut school.

  • 12.05.2012 9:08 PM PDT

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Posted by: WrongLord
That isn't light, they aren't actually "Light" bridges, it's plasma that's been compressed into a safe form.


No, it's literally hardened light.

OT: No, "hard light" is nonsensical and is space magic.

  • 12.05.2012 9:10 PM PDT

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I think photons are annihilated if they come to rest, so we won't be doing it with 'stationary light'.

  • 12.05.2012 9:29 PM PDT


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Posted by: mr pie123
How to contain light.

1. Get a box.
2. Put mirror on every side of the inside of the box.
3. Flash a light in there for a second and quickly close the lid.
4 ???
6. PROFIT!


Genius!

Also, you missed step 9 in between steps 4 and 6.

I have a grudge against 9s...

  • 12.05.2012 9:37 PM PDT

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Posted by: baldeagle24
I'm sorry, I took Phys Apps last year and my teacher wasn't exactly the best, and i'm in Biology right now. I'm also studying for my geometry test because of damn proofs. I have embarrassed myself plenty of times solely upon the fact that I joined when I was 12.


I joined when I was 8.

  • 12.05.2012 9:38 PM PDT

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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Solidifying light itself is ages ahead of our current technology level.

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