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Quantum lasers: Half light, half matter
New Scientist ^ | 4/7/09 | Richard Webb

Posted on 04/08/2009 2:16:42 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: Steely Tom
"1963. 45 years. I was in third grade"

Heck. I was in third grade before WWII started. That's why I remembered it as SilverFinger and that a "C" rating meant it was a "commie" movie.

21 posted on 04/08/2009 8:30:09 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: SuperLuminal
Heck. I was in third grade before WWII started. That's why I remembered it as SilverFinger and that a "C" rating meant it was a "commie" movie.

Uhhh... Hmmm.

Did you work on something during the war that involved large amounts of silver and was of intense interest to the commies?


22 posted on 04/09/2009 3:21:32 PM PDT by Steely Tom (RKBA: last line of defense against vote fraud)
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To: Steely Tom
"Uhhh... Hmmm.

Did you work on something during the war that involved large amounts of silver and was of intense interest to the commies?

...during the war cold war......{:-)

23 posted on 04/09/2009 4:30:40 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: LibWhacker
This creates yet more excitons which produce more resonant light waves and so on, until energy begins to cycle between light and matter so fast - in just a few trillionths of a second - that according to the rules of quantum physics it becomes impossible to tell in which of the two states it is stored.

If it doesn't light, does it matter?

(Sorry. Couldn't help it.)

24 posted on 04/11/2009 12:00:02 PM PDT by FreeKeys ("Governments have killed more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seatbelts ever have."- PJ OÂ’Rourk)
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To: LibWhacker

‘Turn on your half-light’


25 posted on 04/11/2009 12:05:45 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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