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Originally posted by goou111
reply to post by Nevertheless
lol all I said was it made me think of that. I never said the article had anything to do with it
They won't stop using spin that way, but you have a point about the confusion.
Originally posted by goou111
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Light-based memory that preserves quantum coherence (such as polarization and entanglement) is vital for the creation of a long-range quantum network. Just as with conventional, electronic routers, quantum routers must be able to store incoming packets, and then retransmit them — which is exactly what today’s discovery allows. Even so, though, there are still a few barriers to overcome before we can roll out a quantum internet — namely, we must find a method of coherently storing light that introduces so little noise that single photons can still be reliably stored/retrieved, and we need to do it at room temperature, too. Cryogenics might be acceptable at the data center level, but I can’t imagine having a cryogenically cooled router in my house.
Not only does this leave the light trapped inside, but the opacity means that the light inside can no longer bounce around — the light, in a word, has been stopped.
OMG! weaponize this and you have a Very powerful laser gun. it store light, holds it. so just keep punting more in until you have a Very big charge. then release it all in a Blast of laser. you now have the Future laser blaster. I Claim Copy Rights on this.
Originally posted by goou111
Hello
This is very interesting Scientists at the University of Darmstadt in Germany have stopped light for one whole minute
Originally posted by greyartist
Couldn't this work as some invisibility cloak if someone was wearing a cloak or suit made of these crystals?
I mean, we only see everything around us because light bounces off everything, but if that light is trapped, then surely this would work?
Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
reply to post by buddha
OMG! weaponize this and you have a Very powerful laser gun. it store light, holds it. so just keep punting more in until you have a Very big charge. then release it all in a Blast of laser. you now have the Future laser blaster. I Claim Copy Rights on this.
this is why i'm so careful about the ideas and information i release, because the first application most think of is some form of weapon.
what you're talking about is actually how a regular laser works. storing photons in a chamber until they bounce in the correct direction and are allowed to leave the polarized side as a beam.
at any rate, storing too much energy in the crystal would probably disrupt the quantum state that allows storage in the first place.
Seems like you're still guessing at applications instead of referring to the article. First it was weapons, now it's solar energy production.
Originally posted by LABTECH767
My miss understanding as well thank you for the correction, the more appropriate application then would be solar energy production unless the re emission could be synchronised as if it is a lattice then surely that would produce a fairly predictable emission direction unless it is only emitted at the very edge of the lattice structure, Next time I will read the thread more carefully (just like me to jump before looking) Thank you,.
...if you can store light...