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Presumably any new chemicals you formed in this way would fall apart as the chemistry would no longer work. However, if the resulting chemical were stable, then
by kmeisthax 6y ago
Presumably any new chemicals you formed in this way would fall apart as the chemistry would no longer work. However, if the resulting chemical were stable, then you could use control pulses to bridge stable states together through unstable intermediate states. But that would require a lot more physics research before we had an actual use for that.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoOn the surface of it, this sounds like a tool that could open up some new research avenues. Like I wrote in another comment: I wonder if there are metastable states into which you could nudge the atoms using those pulses, in which those atoms could stay after the pulses shut off? If so, then that's another set of Legos for chemists to play with.