Yeah, this is the last season here. Shit is definitely coming to a head. I would love for a NBK type ending where dex just rides off in the sunset but there is no way that is gonna happen

This really doesn’t fit into this thread but I didn’t want to start a new one for this little piece. Scientists have managed to not only stop light for a full minute, but they also managed to store and retrieve an image off of the light. It implies that in the future we may be able to send info across the galaxy at a much faster rate. The article also says it might offer some insight into possibly speeding up light beyond what we originally thought possible. The first small step towards a warp engine? who knows. anyways here it is:

Scientists in Germany have succeeded in stopping light – the fastest thing in the universe – for a whole minute, smashing earlier records.  

Researchers at Darmstadt Technical University achieved the remarkable feat by trapping it in a crystal.  

In a paper published this month in the journal Physical Review Letters, the scientists explained how they stopped the light using a technique called electromagnetically induced transparency. 

 

Crystal clear: scientists found they could trap light inside a crystal for up to sixty seconds

At full pelt, light would normally travel about 11 million miles in one minute – equivalent to more than 20 round trips to the moon. 

‘One minute is extremely, extremely long,’ Thomas Krauss, Professor of optoelectronics at the University of St Andrews, UK, commented to the New Scientist. ‘This is indeed a major milestone.’ 

The physicists, Professor Thomas Halfmann, Christian Hubrich and PhD student Georg Heinze, also used the same technique to store and then retrieve an image consisting of three stripes. ‘We showed you can imprint complex information on your light beam,’ said researcher Georg Heinze.  

The results may further light-based research and could make it possible to store data within beams of light, which could then be sent over long distances. It could also give experts clues on accelerating light beyond the universal speed limit. 

 

 

Light fantastic: the discovery by Professor Halfmann (left), Christian Hubrich and Georg Heinze (right) could enable data to be stored within beams of light 

Halfmann and his colleagues fired a control laser beam at an opaque crystal, triggering a quantum reaction that turned the crystal transparent. 

Then they directed a second light source at the now-transparent crystal. The control laser was then turned off, turning the crystal opaque. 

The light from the secondary source remained trapped inside the crystal. 

In addition, the opacity meant that the light inside could no longer bounce around — in other words, the light had been stopped. 

Through multiple trials, the team was then able to extend the period of time in which the light remained halted within the crystal until they reached the record-breaking minute. 

Heinze said it should even be possible to achieve longer light storage times with other crystals, because they have pushed their current material close to its physical limit. 

Although light normally travels at just under 300 million metres per second in a vacuum, this is not the first time scientists have managed to halt it. In 1999 physicists managed to slow light down to just 17 metres per second and then halt it completely two years later, though only for a fraction of a second.  

Earlier this year, researchers kept it still for 16 seconds using cold atoms.

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I definitely aint an expert on the subject. I guess itd be fair to say they feel it on some degree. Rage and Fear. Nothing in between. They have no moral compass. Fucked up thing is people like that grow to be master manipulators so you can’t tell if you see one. You know the old cliche about serial killers being “quiet well mannered even likeable individuals”

I’m pretty sure there have been studies done on it. The amygdala controls our emotions and sociopaths have a mutation(not the word I want but im comin up blank) and the connections just aren’t there. You can actually see it on a brain scan

I wouldn’t call them inhuman but I guess that depends on your definition of what makes a person. Nature isn’t perfect. There are mistakes and misfires. That said we just can’t let these people run around freely raping and murdering. There is the possibility that we may be able in the future to fix those imperfections in the brain. Devil or not these people need to be weeded out one way or another.

Who said I already wasn’t? Then I’d do my damnest not to get caught