[HN Gopher] Physicists develop a novel quantum theory of light-i...
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       Physicists develop a novel quantum theory of light-induced matter
        
       Author : wglb
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2023-06-27 00:24 UTC (22 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (phys.org)
        
       | mavu wrote:
       | Wait, I know this.
       | 
       | It was one of the plot lines of Destiny or Destiny 2!
        
       | swader999 wrote:
       | Fiat Lux!
        
         | mjhay wrote:
         | But enough about shitty university mottos,
        
       | vittore wrote:
       | Is it at all possible to use these photonic molecules as
       | alternative explanation to universe mass instead of dark matter /
       | dark energy?
        
       | KingLancelot wrote:
       | [dead]
        
       | comboy wrote:
       | The article really doesn't explain what is new here (compared to
       | say [1]). Stating that there are 3 phases of matter certainly
       | doesn't help [2]
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       | 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_molecule 2.
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_matter
        
       | TeMPOraL wrote:
       | All cool applications, but if I read it correctly, it's not _hard
       | light_? We ain 't getting the real Holodeck any time soon?
        
         | jfengel wrote:
         | It's not even the tiniest bit "hard light". The actual journal
         | article is titled "Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy of
         | Molecular Polaritons: Langevin Approach".
         | 
         | The article is about light induced _phases_ of matter: new
         | behaviors for existing matter. Not matter being generated from
         | light, which is what the headline implies.
         | 
         | The title of the article is bad and they should feel bad.
        
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