FerroFluid Photon Conduction

[gabe4mdema]

light is energy neutrons loose energy an it goes into a photon photons are light right?..... well could light be compressed? or broken down? or transformed? back into matter liquid or gas? any one know wtf i just asked?

[benner2000]

A photon is a packet of light. In order to turn the light energy into mass, you would have to slow it down according to Einstein's famous equation E=mc^2. However, in this case it would look like

E/c^2=m, just to make it easier. Slowing light down by that magnitude is currently impossible. It is only impossible, though, until someone does it;)

[brandonskala]

slowing light down, say, by passing it through a bose-einstein condensate, as they have (whitch slowed light to a crawl) or by some other way and on a much larger scale?

I really do not know.

[TheUFOeffect]

from what i understand ibm slowed light down with a microchip to very slow speeds. from what i understand it was slowed down to 9.7m/s

[metamaterial]

The word "light" is mostly used to describe only those photons in the wavelengths we can see, so while light is comprised of photons, the converse is not always true. And yes, photons can interact with matter in plenty of ways to increase its mass.

[Vest8Ninja]

Its a good question, I know that light can be slowed down to the speed jets travel at, I'm not sure if it can be compressed. Unless u consider a laser beam which has more energy per unit of time. Thats sort of like condensing light.

[Donaldo]

Are you really sure the suspension isn't exhibiting the affects of the electromagnetic field generated by passing current through the LEDs?

[kSavvy]

your experimental setup is not too clear. is there anyway you could take a video of that?

as far as i can tell you are moving the magnet from side to side and then rotating an LED "X" with 8 LEDs, 4 of which are lit in a line?

Have you tried this experiment while diffusing the source with a ground glass or something similar?

[tempus8080808]

Is there any chance of this being posted with an audio track or subtitles to explain what is happening?

It seems interesting.

[SirZerp]

I once was shooting low light videos late at night in the Blackburn building. The janitor came in, and of course I had the lights turned off, and I'm scared him good.

[justinandem]

Crazy stuff happens in the basement of Blackburn science building.

[xXKariBananaXx]

How does it change color like that?

[xXKariBananaXx]

Whoa. :O

I have no idea what that thing is, but it is quite amazing.

[aALestat]

it's on a rotating magnetic field???

[photonstataismylife]

This is beyond my research area:P