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- Zippo, on 08/04/2008, -4/+37Hopefully this leads to more efficient frickin' lasers. Hopefully to be attached to the heads of frickin' sharks.
- angusm, on 08/04/2008, -3/+27Just in time. There's so much light in my apartment that I'm running out of places to put it.
- BlueSkyfish, on 08/03/2008, -4/+19No.
- sinkhead, on 08/04/2008, -0/+14No more sharks, sorry. Will ill-tempered Sea Bass do?
- sdellboy, on 08/04/2008, -12/+26After they've done light, scientists will be taking on their next challenge: squeezing fat American kids into normal size clothes.
- Azerael, on 08/04/2008, -0/+12Hey, dude? You're dribbling a bit.
- Zippo, on 08/04/2008, -1/+11I don't care, just make it go PEW PEW PEW.
- TheOther1, on 08/04/2008, -0/+9An optical "capacitor", that's pretty cool.
- Jektal, on 08/04/2008, -0/+9Optical != Quantum
- Azerael, on 08/04/2008, -0/+8I do believe it's called "getting a better job".
- amorrise, on 08/04/2008, -0/+7Let's just say we'd like to avoid any quantum entanglements.
- Jektal, on 08/04/2008, -0/+7Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so.
- loquax, on 08/04/2008, -2/+8Due to legal and quantum entanglement issues, the technology will never see the compressed light of day.
- ordig, on 08/03/2008, -7/+11Does this mean I can have my quantum computer now?
- Pittance, on 08/04/2008, -3/+7There are far simpler methods. Such as killing the children and using their bio-mass to engineer correct-sized children.
- hollyminkowski, on 08/04/2008, -0/+3Very very very small optical transistors is the key...
BTW ... all transistors are light sensitive.
Most diodes are light sensitive as well... you can use an LED to detect light as well as make light. - dacheetah, on 08/05/2008, -0/+2Optical ≈ Photonic though.
Maybe we could get a photonic computer out of this...
Of course being able to move light through a 200nm hole is only one step, you still need optical switches etc that will operate at a reasonable frequency and fit into a small enough space to be useful. - cloudberries, on 08/04/2008, -3/+5I wish they'd science their way to finding a method to slow down modern life.
"Science has today invented a way to extend the average lunch break by roughly 50%. This revolutionary method involves a two-fold increase in the level of coffee and sandwich" - cutright, on 08/04/2008, -1/+3This is a poorly named article, the light isn't compressed at all... if it were then it's wavelength/frequency would be altered. Although the light is guided by extremely small fibers, the light itself actually passes in and out of the fiber.
This research is more likely to bring up a computer industry of light circuity before it could bring about a feasible quantum computer. Finely tuned loops with the fibers can act as logic gates... but the technology isn't quite there yet. - Zippo, on 08/04/2008, -2/+4Jesus, are you mad?! They'll kill us all.
- aenima987, on 08/04/2008, -2/+3Maybe, but it still won't run Crysis.
- dougle, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1Finally, a type of light that CAN shine out of my ass.
- Pittance, on 08/04/2008, -3/+4This has nothing (ok, a little, but only if you use a MUCH smaller beam as a changer) to do with quantum computing. Quantum computing uses sub atomic particles and their spin to store data.
- sdellboy, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1Hooray for sterotypes. It's not as if Americans refrain from paint an entire race/religion/country with a single brush....
- trevorh, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1If you don't think this is interesting your a ***** moron
- cutright, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1Are you suggesting its amplitude is compressed? No physical attribute of the light is compressed in any sense of the word. Confining the light to a more well-defined path is not properly described with "compressed". The title is accurate enough to get attention... that is all.
- GeezerD, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1godd*mn great fuc*ing time to be alive.
- Pittance, on 08/04/2008, -1/+2You could slow down time, but you wouldn't notice. Time is relative, so only an outside observer would see us going slower. We would just get less done in a longer amount of time relative to some other place.
- fireashes, on 08/04/2008, -4/+4yes, beta version and you have to make it.
- mserebreny, on 08/04/2008, -1/+0you're a very punny man!!
- JudgeMonkey, on 08/04/2008, -2/+1And then after that they can work on opening the minds of prejudice simpletons, an even harder task, I imagine.
- dacheetah, on 08/05/2008, -1/+0The wavelength would only be changed if the wave was compressed along the same axis as the wave is travelling. Even then the quoted wavelength of any wave is typically the wavelength in a vacuum, it's always smaller in a medium, so you could say that any light outside of a vacuum is compressed. When they say compressed in this context, they mean they fit it through a hole smaller than light should be able to fit, which means compressed perpendicular to the direction of travel. I'd say the title as accurate enough.
- theOster, on 08/05/2008, -2/+1obviously you dont live here.
- Pittance, on 08/04/2008, -4/+2This isn't a laser. It does not propagate in free space. It needs 2 conductors to build a charge, spaced closely, to conduct the compressed wave.
- DeceasedVirus, on 08/04/2008, -2/+0But will it blend?
- cloudberries, on 08/04/2008, -8/+4Yes, but it has a few usability issues, mainly due to it existing everywhere in the Universe at once.
- blogpal, on 08/04/2008, -8/+1When will they put some light beam on an electron so that I can see what an electron looks like.
- inactive, on 08/04/2008, -10/+2yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
- naughtyboy, on 08/03/2008, -12/+3So that's it then?
For the phrase. "Where the light don't shine." - macen, on 08/04/2008, -14/+3You go Scientists!!!!!!Making life easier for us is the way to go.Ok now where was i? oh yea (Yawn) i think i'll just lie down and watch tv before i hurt myself!!!
- inactive, on 08/04/2008, -13/+1they should get rid of all light so that there will be no more wars and people will have to learn to communicate and understand each other
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