Physicists create new source of light: Bose-Einstein condensate 'super-photons'

Science Daily ( November 24, 2010 )



This three year old story isn't exactly news, but something about it got my attention yesterday.

• This photonic Bose-Einstein condensate is a completely new source of light that has characteristics resembling lasers.
• The Bonn physicists then increased the quantity of photons between the mirrors by exciting the pigment solution using a laser. This allowed them to concentrate the cooled-off light particles so strongly that they condensed into a "super-photon."[emphasis added]
• "We are currently not capable of producing lasers that generate very short-wave light -- i.e. in the UV or X-ray range," explained Jan Klärs. "With a photonic Bose-Einstein condensate this should, however, be possible."

Question:  Am I to understand that they succeeded in capturing light?  Does this mean that they can capture and release light at will?  Does this also mean that light could be added to it indefinitely so that it could be released over a period of time?



This could be a quite significant discovery.  So what has been done in the last 3 years?



I googled it and found a few more stories.  It has been replicated in the lab.  More evidence that these can be collected

• The microwaves from the cavity interacted with the material, generating polaritons. These drifted preferentially along the wire toward the aluminum-free zone, where they collected and condensed.
• In other words, the electronic properties of the material itself replaced the need for cooling, allowing the quasiparticles to gather and condense into a BEC. The experimenters confirmed this effect by detecting the telltale light emission.[emphasis added]

But at least some of the light must be escaping.  Otherwise, there would be no emission.  This implies a leakage that would limit the amount of time that the entity could exist.  By the way, I have heard before of the ability to slow down light.  So, this may be a way of slowing it down.  But what could you do with this?



Here's another link with a video.  Perhaps sometime, I'll have some time to watch the video, but not now.



Very interesting stuff.  One application mentioned in another link above was to use the BEC photons to etch even more powerful computer chips.  It is possible because of the X-ray laser that can now be produced, which are of smaller wavelength.  There are other applications for X-ray lasers, I'm sure.

Quite a difference in just one day

Yesterday, I was so prolific.  Today, I am having some trouble with ideas for posts.

What's the trouble?  Well, for one thing, I don't know how this gets taken sometimes.  It seems that I've gone off the deep end with the speculations and such, and maybe I should knock it all off.  But if I did that, I would only write about the stuff I've actually done.  To me, that is all rather boring stuff.  So, I won't write about my boring job.

Besides, there's reason for me to believe that even if I look foolish writing some of these speculations, that it may have merit anyway.

I'll give an example.  In a psychology book many years ago, I remember reading a story about a program that some of the mind men were given that would help in the targeting for bombers during WWII.  The mind men came up with an idea that was rejected by the military, but probably not because it wouldn't work, but because of the way it would look.  The idea was to train a bird to peck at a target which gave midcourse corrections for a bomb so that it could stay on a target all of the way in.

Now that sounds ridiculous, I'm sure.  But the darned idea could have worked.  Especially on a hard target to hit, like an aircraft carrier.  The ship could easily avoid a bomb from a high altitude bomber.  An innovation like that could have been a game-changer, but it was rejected for reasons that had nothing to do with its efficacy.

So, I won't worry anymore about the way something looks or what its source may look like to some.  Even the so-called best and brightest aren't the ones who come up with great ideas.  Maybe I won't come up with anything here, but if I don't try, I am guaranteed not to succeed.

Damn the torpedos, full steam ahead.

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I'm Melting! - The Wizard of Oz (7/8) Movie CLIP (1939) HD ( reposted from 9/12/12 )

NOTE:  This was a very veiled reference to Benghazi.  I didn't know at the time who was "melting", but I might have figured Obama and/or Hillary.  It may have turned out to be NEITHER.  Or, perhaps it is our own society that's melting!

repost follows immediately:

Somebody's melting after today. I guess we'll see who shortly.

"SHOCKER": White House, Administration, Defense Secretary, et al knew immediately Benghazi was a terror attack

Protein Wisdom

comment:

Obviously, I am not shocked.  I included the quotation marks to show that.

Of course they knew.  They just needed to lie long enough for things to calm down a bit and get themselves re-elected.

Most people are living in the false world the media and academia has created.  They couldn't think for themselves if their very lives depended upon it.  They've been indoctrinated very well indeed.

If things are to get better, people are going to have to unlearn what they have learned.

The People United

Les dices niño, tartamudeo.
Вы говорите им ребенком, я заикаться.

The translations above were made with Google Translate.  My language skills suck.

Self Selection in Wonderland

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Excerpts:

• Students naturally self-select their degree according to a combination of inclination, aptitude, and perseverance. [ check: That's what I did.  In fact, I was making my own decisions by the time I was 13 years old.  Unfortunately for me, these were not the best possible decisions.]
• Knowledge may be priceless, but a higher education is clearly not. [ check:  I got a degree, but little good it did me.  It was even in a field that was in demand---computer science.  My grades were good.  But the quality of the education, which I conclude was inadequate, was the key.  That's what I take from this post.  Educators ain't educating.]
• Dangerous Children have mastered at least three different ways of supporting themselves financially, by the time they are 18 years of age. [ check.  I'm still trying to decide what I'm going to be when I grow up.  Clearly, I wasn't a "Dangerous Child".]

I tried a lot of different things.  None of them have worked out.  But all along, I wanted to write.  So, here I am doing it.  I was warned that writing wouldn't pay much.  How true that turned out to be.  Haven't made a penny doing it, but I love it so much.

If I was like my oldest brother, I would have been a mechanic.  I found that out that I wasn't.

I tried sales, but that was no good either.

If I was like my daddy, I would have been a hunter.  In his later years, he talked about living off the land.  He could do it too.  But I never really learned how.  Hunting and fishing ain't my bag, baby.  But I could do it even now if I had to.  So could a whole lot of people.  My old man could drive an 18 wheeler.  Now, that is something.  Not everybody can do that.  But the old man died off too early to teach me that.

My mom lived on a farm when she grew up.  Family farms are a thing of the past, but may have a comeback when the machines take over.

I started to learn Spanish, but didn't finish that project.  Russian too, same story.  I did finish my degree, so I got that going for me.