Future? Quantum/temporal selection photon thrower

[Wits' End]

Forget color temperature! Let's get a flashlight that can change your local spacetime³⁷. Any thoughts 🤔🤔

My second thought, after the idea of a flashlight powered by a flux capacitor, a kyber/dilithium crystal matrix, etc. With a body of scrith. Was:
If this light was made at Home, by Dr Who, What, and I Don't Know, the other inventors would be...?
I saw the story in Popular Mechanics and New Scientist. They all have paywalls so I didn't link.
Physics
Experiment with 37 dimensions shows how strange quantum physics can be
A search for particles’ most paradoxical quantum states led researchers to construct a 37- dimensional experiment with a photon.

As I finished writing, from my paradoxical mental state, I thought this might be more appropriate for the Café. But I started with GFD, The Cafè might be a different reality. Moderators feel free to move, though it may create a wormhole!
Been a while since I started a thread 🔦🔦⚡🔦🔦
Best to all, Wits' End

 

[jacobd]

Now thats an original CPFer!

 

[IMA SOL MAN]

If we could only find some dilithium crystals...

 

[ghostguy6]

Looks like someone needs their meds adjusted... 😆

 

[Wits' End]

How many people know what "scrith" is.
It might have a ring to it 😊

 

[DaveTheDude]

After carefully reading and then rereading the original post, methinks Brother Wit's End hath consumed one too many CBD gummies. 😎

That noted, it might be an interesting experiment to start a thread, or perhaps continue this one, with the only requirement being anyone posting must have consumed two or more of the poster's preferred flavor of CBD substance. T'wood be an interesting thread, would it not?

 

[IMA SOL MAN]

 

[dc38]

If you could do that, it may require black holes to be opened up elsewhere, or worse, elsewhen.

 

[Sabrewulf]

I want to know what flashlight physicists used to measure the wave collapse, firing 1 photon at a time. Does it come in 519a?

 

[DaveTheDude]

The light is really, really dim, but it has an exceptionally long runtime. A sub-lumen fanboy's fever dream. 😜

 

[Shorttime]

Whew! My script-blocker also jumps over paywalls, so I was able to find a link to a site where the original paper was published. I'm a quantum phenomena nerd, so I'll have a go at an educated guess of what you would see if you powered up a GHZ Paradox Light (TM pending).

Obviously, you're not going to get a solid beam of light. Instead, I think what you would see is random flashes, a lot like the sparks from a firework. What you would be seeing is weird quantum photons cracking into regular physics particles. I think the colors of the "sparks" would range all up and down the spectrum, including some ultraviolet, which would be great for your skin.

The occasional very bright flash and little bit of heat would be from two photons actually undergoing fusion, right in mid-air. To add to this effect, aim the GHZ Paradox Light at a fog bank.

The effect would continue for a few seconds after you switched off the light, due to a small number of photons violating causality, and popping into "real" space well after they had been generated. These are the ones that would stand the best chance of undergoing the aforementioned fusion process, since they are very energetic, indeed.

You would likely need an auxiliary battery to get any decent run time. Not because of the light itself, but because of the cryogenic cooling unit. And of course, it would be utterly useless as an actual flashlight.

 

[Wits' End]

GHZ Paradox Light (TM pending).

GHZ? Giga Hertz?

I like the Paradox Light!

I was hoping the Kyber & dilithium crystal matrix would help the power needs. The scrith body, might help with a solar/geomagnetic boost also.

Just the possibility of interaction of multiple dimensions' physical laws, should enable unlimited power. (Exclude mwah ha ha)

 

[Shorttime]

I would use either Kyber or dilithium, but not both, because the two might become unstable in each other's company. Or worse, they become quantum coupled, and you end up with an infinite energy loop. That really would destroy the Universe.

IIRC, dilithium undergoes some kind of phase change, which could be bad for your Kyber crystal.

Scrith sounds like it's hellaciously dense, so your light is going to weigh "all of it". Fine if you need scene lighting while cleaning up yet another Time Lord mess, not so good to carry on Multiverse Search & Rescue missions.

Could use the Kyber crystal to power your driver, and see how dilitium works as a quantum lense? It works with other fundamental particles, it might do just fine.

I still think you're going to be locked out of using higher dimensions to power the light. Photons from n! dimensional spaces are likely going to simply cease to exist if you try to pull them into conventional spacetime.

 

[DaveTheDude]

You folks have ventured into realms beyond my limited off-world experience. I'll just wait for one of the trusted vendors to offer a commercial version (which I suspect won't happen before the dawn of the 24th century). 🚀🛸🪄🔋💰📆

 

[jabe1]

Sounds like the infinite improbability drive of flashlights.

 

[IMA SOL MAN]

This thing is going to require multiple sonic screwdrivers to assemble. Donations, anyone?

 

[DaveTheDude]

 

[Shorttime]

Sounds like the infinite improbability drive of flashlights.

Even with "only" 37 dimensions to work with, it's improbable, all right!

See there? Time Lords, making a mess.

 

[Wits' End]

.....Scrith sounds like it's hellaciously dense, so your light is going to weigh "all of it".

<Honestly I hadn't thought about the density of scrith>
However with the nature [unnature] of this light, do we need to be concerned with mass, momentum or inertia? Those could all be controlled in the 'hidden settings'! 🤔🤔

 

[dc38]

<Honestly I hadn't thought about the density of scrith>
However with the nature [unnature] of this light, do we need to be concerned with mass, momentum or inertia? Those could all be controlled in the 'hidden settings'! 🤔🤔

Strobe mode in the gravity setting...compulsory rave, (or impulsory 😉