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Black lasers!

:( I guess that was what u call shut down. Oh well.
However I never said protons are antiparticles of photons.
And I was only theorising. I know antimatter is opposite of matter essentially so i figure, hey, why not opposite way round?
And saying a photon is similar to an electron was a bad choice of words. What I mean is that electrons are usually present to produce photons, so if protons were used in place of electrons you might get antiphotons. Maybe.
 





What you mean are positrons as the opposite particle of electrons.

But sorry to bust your bubble, but afaik the photon has no antiparticle.

Think about it this way: Particle + Antiparticle =Energy (=Photon) + Neutrino.

So would a Photon and an Antiphoton annihilate, what would the result be? A photon?

That's the problem with energy, can't destroy it :)
 
I know how to make one!!!

Seriously!!!!

Take a Group buy diode and send @ 3volts and @ 500 Ma through it with no cooling....

You will then see the transformation from a regular old boring RED beam to the much sought after Black laser!

It's very difficult to see.....however on the plus side once it achieves "the Black Wavelength" you won't need to use safety goggles!!!


If you don't want to go through the trouble of making one yourself..PM me...I have a few I would be willing to sell!!  ;D

Larry
 
BlueFusion said:
:( I guess that was what u call shut down. Oh well.
However I never said protons are antiparticles of photons.
And I was only theorising. I know antimatter is opposite of matter essentially so i figure, hey, why not opposite way round?
And saying a photon is similar to an electron was a bad choice of words. What I mean is that electrons are usually present to produce photons, so if protons were used in place of electrons you might get antiphotons. Maybe.
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Hey BlueFusion you're shooting yourself in the foot again :-?
But then again I think we all do that from time to time.
I don't want to chase you away from the intriguing field that is particle physics. 8-)
Do read the wiki page I posted?

Lol LarryQ, I have an even simpler method. Connect it directly to 2 fresh AA alkalines. No need to regulate voltage and current!
 
philguy said:
What you mean are positrons as the opposite particle of electrons.

But sorry to bust your bubble, but afaik the photon has no antiparticle.

Think about it this way: Particle + Antiparticle =Energy (=Photon) + Neutrino.

So would a Photon and an Antiphoton annihilate, what would the result be? A photon?

That's the problem with energy, can't destroy it :)
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Actually there are interesting theorectical possibilities of anti-photons from the math of QM which does not discount it's possibility. But that is beyond my level and well many things are mathematically and theoretically possible. That's why they have string theory!
 
*grumbles*
well the photon has no antiparticle THAT WE KNOW OF.
We haven't invented antimatter yet but it *could* exist.
And I know you can't destroy energy. The antiphoton could be a photon with a negative amont of energy in it.
 
Actually they make antimatter every other day in accelerators. Just that they annihilate pretty fast and the amount is miniscule. There isn't really a way to store it properly for a long time currently.
 
yeah, black laser would be cool, but you couldn't have it in a beam. it would have to just be a funnel of darkness leading to the tip of the laser pointer. i bet that if they did make some, there would be MANY dumb catastrophes.
 
Hmm maybe it's time I pushed my GB diode to a black laser! It just refuses to give up on me even those I do have abit of beam artifacts now. My latest red though is artifact free and burns just as well.

I'd like a uv laser though. Anyone knows if they sell uv diodes?? I guess the blu-ray is pretty close but fluorescing with an invisible beam from a few miles away is pretty damn cool.
 
u know... they call UV light a black light bulb. So a UV laser can sell as a black laser.

a black laser which emits anti photons will be deadly. the moment you flip the swich the photos will come out, cancel other surrounding photons and produce a reaction many times the power of a nuclear weapon. remember, when photons cancel each other out, you can take the mass and apply the E=MCsquare formula directly to determine the amount of energy released because we can assume 100% of photon mass gets used up.
 
Err, yes. But what is the mass of a photon? You calculate that with e=mc² - so the energy you get is the energy of the photon. So what would happen? Take it you have a 1W Antilaser, then you have 2W of "Annihilation-Power" - which isn't all too much.

Question is, what is the result of a photon-photon-annihilation - another Photon? Matter? Dark matter? Your momxkcdrlz? Because photons are created when an annihilation happens.

Suppose some form of higher-frequency-photon would be created (for whatever reason) (cool, mid-air SHGs!), you might end up with Gamma radiation which might be enough to become lethal.

Question is (II), what is with photons in the Laser? Won't they annihilate there, creating a "massive nuclear explosion" (lol!) in your palm?

What about thermal radiation? If that gets destroyed first, you would not "see" the beam, but instead "feel" it as it would be col...yet hot from the photon energy?



Annihilating Photons is like assuming Atoms had non-elastic collisions :)
 
philguy said:
even if these were @1W, you'd need about one hundred to "kill" a 100W bulb...
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I would just like to point out that a 100W light bulb does NOT emit anywhere near 100W of visible light. Probably less than 3W of light.
 
Unfortunately it isn't possible to create a black laser.
You have to create a beam of <exotic matter> which is able to annihilate or absorb all photons in its path.
Even if this kind of technology is possible in the future this can never be called a laser because the particles of this beam are most likely not photons, Light amplicifition doesn't take place in this scenario therefore it not a laser anymore.

Maybe some kind of neutrino beam can do such a thing but afaik neutrinos are not capable of absorbing photons.
And instead of a small diode you probably need some kind of pocket size particle accelerator.
 
@Cyparagon. Well, it does. Considering the 95% going off into the near/mid/far IR, that would have to be canceled too. Reason: Just because you don't see it' that doesn't mean it isn't there. So then your oh great and behold "photon absorber" wouldn't absorb all the photons. Just my thought when I posted about the 100W bulb (yes, and I did consider its inefficiency!).

@solar00: Well, "portable" and "particle accelerator" sounds a bit opposing each other. Maybe some day though *gleams*. Still, I doubt that Neutrino > Photon, in that way.

"yo man, my neutrino beam totally pwned those photon bastards"



...which leads to the question, if photons were bastards, who is their real father?
 
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