Physicist create new type of light! (potential for x-ray spectrum lasers!)

[Bixler]

This was a very interesting read, while not directly related to laser's the implications of this are huge! Figured it deserved a read for any physics enthusiast!

Physicists create new type of light | TG Daily

X-ray and as high as gamma ray versions of lasers (actions resembling lasers but not the same process of creating them).... I see this being put to very bad use by the military industrial complex. Aside from that what are some other implications (good or bad) could this new type of light have? Tesla worthy directed energy weapons and beyond!

 

[Xplorer877]

Bose-Einstein condensates have the potential to revolutionize electronics. The exponential increase of computing power cannot continue. As it stands microprocessors have layers of silicon 20 atoms thin. Any thinner than 5 atoms thin and electrons no longer behave as expected. So computing power will plateau. But thats where Bose-Einstein condensates come in. Laser light is simply photons moving in phase. A Bose-Einstein condensate is atoms in a plasma moving in phase. If you include plasma, a Bose-Einstein condensate is kinda like a 5th state of matter, or frozen plasma. I didn't know the same was possible with photons though. That's cool.

-Tony

 

[Trevor]

So computing power will plateau.

Pft, I'm already plotting my 16-socket-motherboard PC build. When in doubt, add cores and run Linux!

Very interesting read though; I'll finish it after class.

-Trevor