Solid Light? Yeah I knew that.

http://www.gizmag.com/solid-light-quantum-mechanics/33865/

Scientists have been observing the wave-particle duality of light for centuries, but never has light been seen to behave like matter. Until now, that is. Researchers at Princeton University have devised a method for giving light the properties of liquids and solids, with huge potential ramifications in the study of quantum mechanics and other areas of physics.

They are not, we should be clear, actually transforming light into a crystal, or any other form of matter – though turning light into matter and binding its photons together to form simple molecules are both being explored elsewhere. Rather, the research involved locking individual photons together in a lattice – what the researchers describe as "macroscopic quantum self-trapping" – such that they become like a solid or fluid object.

That's old tech -



Coincidentally, Macroscopic Quantum Self-Trapping was the name of my alternative rock band in high school...

Next stop...
Holo-bridge.

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.031043

AAAgh! Heaviside Step functions...fuck. Time to break out the ODEs book.

they been having this shit in the parallel universe for years

Commander Strax said:

they been having this shit in the parallel universe for years

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I just saw a colloquium today where the topic was Black Holes and Information Loss, with Entropy and Hawking radiation, entangled something-ons...the usual stuff.
I was mostly there to have my mind fucked (who needs Science Fiction when you can see live performances of Science Fantasy), and score the delicious, chocolate cookies they offer.
If only the cookie was warm...maybe an electrostatic heat pad?

Anyway...
The esteemed Professor, at a key point in the discussion of his research, demonstrated a model of what happens when a black hole forms.
It was pretty wild, one could see the mass-energy waves moving toward "singularity" when suddenly the event horizon develops, and an inner horizon begins travelling inward, too (so there are two of them).
This baffled me, so I approached him after to ask if it meant his model was toroidal and not spherical (as he assumed).
Nope...
He said it was a "sphere within a sphere", gradually bringing the physics of the black hole into being, I presume.

And yet, here's the rub. When he applied his idea of "no singularity" (in order to fix some other conjecture), that inner horizon just danced around at some average radius. Meanwhile all of this energy is piled up in the center, which goes toward its extinguishing...

"spheres within spheres"... that bugs me. If this massive "Bose-Einstein Condensate" has any rotation in it, does it not seem plausible this primordial jelly would shift somewhat towards the equators, thereby opening the center along its axis?
It certainly helps to explain how energy is disposed and allowing other QM factors to blend in more easily, like "gravitons", perhaps.

I don't know if I misunderstood his model (quite possible) or he's not exactly sure what his model is telling him.

He made a good crack at the Hawking radiation equation, though.