Illumination at the limits of knowledge

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Over the past century, scientists and engineers have used light photons to produce technologies that are little short of miraculous

technologies discussed in this report are moving forward apace. The companies which provide machinery to solar-cell manufacturers are ceaselessly trying to make more efficient use of silicon and less costly modules. In universities and elsewhere researchers are looking at ways to add a second layer to such cells so as to capture energy at wavelengths silicon ignores—though their best attempts so far do not last very long outdoors.s ever better sources of illumination.

Physicists are not the only scientists entranced by lasers. One of the workhorses of genetic engineering is green fluorescent protein . The instructions for makingare easily added to genes for other proteins. When poked with finely focused lasers these modified proteins fluoresce, thus revealing their whereabouts—a handy way of learning which proteins cells put where.

The degree to which light-based techniques are changing sciences across the board can be seen in the past decade’s decisions by the Nobel Physics Committee. In 2014 the committee recognised a physical breakthrough in the production of light—the development of blues, a technical tour de force which made the production of white light cheaper and easier than ever before.

Einstein’s work dispensed with the need for an all-pervading luminiferous aether. But the fields evoked by quantum electrodynamics , the mid-20th-century culmination of work on electromagnetism, quantum theory and relativity, populate empty space with something else instead: very faint possibilities. Andsays that, if light gets sufficiently intense, its photons will interact with these possibilities to bring forth brand new electrons from empty space.

 

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I would be willing to bet they deliver 500 terawatts of power by physical means of what is electromagnetic interactivity at work. I would win the bet hands down, because all that so happens physically, so happens fully electromagnetically. No fit evidence to the contrary exists!

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Not interested until more power comes out than goes in

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In the next century, it's gonna be neurons.

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