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Jellyfish Proteins Improve the Polariton Laser
- themgt 10y agoThis may be a stupid lay question, but to me the existence and usefulness ("realness") of quasiparticles suggests an obvious analogy to actual particles. In other words if we understand that quantum mechanics leads to quasiparticles as emergent phenomena within solids, shouldn't we consider that highly suggestive that real particles could best also be understood as simply emergent phenomena based on a more fundamental quantum reality?
- futileboy 10y agoI understood some of these words!
- XaspR8d 10y agoStupid lay rhetorical answer: aren't real particles already understood as emergent phenomena of their fields/wavefunctions?
- marxidad 10y agoParticles are actually just excitations in a field but it's the field that makes them actual particles. An electron arises from an electron field. An electron hole arises from an absence of an electron.
- RandomOpinion 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_field_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_field_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything Yes, quite a number of people have considered the possibility and have been looking for such a thing for decades.
- gaze 10y agoThat's exactly what every unifying theory looks for. String theory included. Quite tough to find the thing that has all the symmetries but not too many and does all the right things.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoGreat, now if this escapes from the lab we will have Jellyfish with frickin' lasers on their heads! :-) I struggle to imagine a solid use for this effect (although it suppose it would provide an evolutionary advantage to e.coli that could lase their food before eating it.) Quantum dots I get, high efficiency LEDs and lasers.
- csours 10y agoFortunately sea water attenuates lasers very effectively.
- awinter-py 10y agothis is like the origin story for a supervillain. hard at work in his/her lab, a flash of gamma radiation turns this intrepid jellyfish geneticist into ...
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