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https://www.ecoticias.com/en/light-transformed-into-supersolid/12047/
bmg50barrett
Glad to see we're contributing to the science hype nonsense.
HamSlamwich
Can't wait to see how they turn this technology into advertising.
PhailRaptor
Any and every open space of sky will become a billboard
Escapist83
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-laser-supersolid.html
vegivamp
Half as long, twice as informative. Thank you.
YouCanCallMeAnything
Hardlight is possible???
CaptainPawfulFox
With enough teasing and foreplay...
Fendeezy
I was thinking green lantern powers, but yall do yall I guess.
andiroo42
Comic book super powers, here we come!
OneMoreLime
Can I deep fry it?
Poopette
Is it just me or does the article read like AI?
DJOldguy
"No, no, no, we're not going have anything trans around here... I don't believe in such stuff, nothing can trans into anything, it's not natural. No more Trans movies, people or science." Memo from MAGA HQ, Red Square.
ThailandExpress
RobJenkins
DontYouHateWhenAllUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken
What a wanker. =D
There is a book of this series BTW. Very Good. True to form.
marsilies
It's funny because the two creators had a falling-out, so there's two separate "third" book in the series: Last Human and Backwards
DontYouHateWhenAllUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken
Orly?
vegivamp
Yarly.
marsilies
Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf#Novels
DontYouHateWhenAllUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken
Vive la lecture!
Pavloval
If you think about it, Holodecks were all AI powered. An economy without money meant that there's no public domain, so you can just use anyone from history, living or fictional.
BrockEffingSamson
Lack of money does not preclude IP protections.
CaptainPawfulFox
The fact that Quark had to go to great lengths to obtain a holodeck program of Kira implies some legal (or moral) limitations.
InvidiousSquid
I mean you _could_, but then you're late for your shift and suddenly you're in counseling for inappropriate behavior.
WaxDragon
Too bad America hates science these days
HisRoyalMajestyKingV
KiraNamida
theMonkeyTrap
I think it might bring us closer to creating a black hole on demand and use that to power a type 2 civilization.
Outlavv
Cool. Another technology that will be used to make 8 billions lives worse so that 2000 people can make infinite + 1 money lol
chaylar
Cool. Now dont let some corpo patent it and make it inaccessible forever after.
BleedingQuasar
This will never come to fruition thanks to religious conservatives because their desires to drag us back to the fucking Stone Age.
Becker37
Now if we could just figure out how to be a civilized species...
thekeyofe
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2025/03/14/holodick
vegivamp
Great bit of commentary.
moreSaucePlease
When asked how heavy this new solid is, researchers are quoted as saying, “It’s very light.”
ThatShiftyMonkey
If you ask a scientist how much a rainbow weighs they'll say, "I'm not sure precisely, but it's pretty light."
FLOOKO
dad, shouldnt you be at work?
thatsmyfetish69
moreSaucePlease
Can’t be a dad joke until it’s fully groan
ReginaKasteen
Kwyjor
The significance of this result is almost certainly blown wildly out of proportion for the purposes of clickbait. But we all know that. Right?
viila
It is potentially significant. But it has absolutely nothing to do with what OP is insinuating here. It potentially enables higher temperature qubits, less noise sensitive qubits, and offers new insights into condensed matter physics. Basically, it could enable more sensitive instruments and quantum computers that don't require as insane cooling systems as they currently do. Has nothing to do with holograms or being able to touch light projections.
BrockEffingSamson
ChaoticGoodson
One step closer to holodeck waste removal being the worst job in Star Fleet!
Gestalt7
"I HAVE HER CLEANING 🤬 FROM THE HOLODECK'S 🤬 FILTER!"
"Ugh. People really use it for that?"
"Oh yeah. It's mostly that."
KenKorte
Y'all think he's saying shit or cum lol?
ZitLicker
Riker approves.
PorterPickUp
Kiares
Everything reminds me of her.
malachilenomade
JayDeeDubs
Sticklebrickk
Computer; load up Dino nuggies program. Give them sentience and the ability to feel pain. Safety Protocols off.
Isthe4thtimethecharm
I bet in reality that shit just gets pumped right back into the replicator.
KoRplussomeletters
I mean... yes? You dematerialise it into energy, which can then be reconstituted into anything else.
Varenvel
you just find someone who is into it.
ebonyfaery
Dyou think they'd not have had robots cleaning? Or something?
GuitaristDom
DSREX
Food replicator in reverse. Has a specific sense of irony.
Morg729
And the raw material gets sent to the food replicator. Why is the food so salty
PinkEater
Seems like waste removal would be figured out long before holodeck creation.
3nd3rwiggin
Yeah, makes no sense since transporters exist.
MerriMod
I always figured cleaning was handled by a very low-yield phaser array just bombarding the entire room momentarily. Not powerful enough to hurt anyone, but plenty to sanitize. Or the Holodeck itself would just generate a holographic mechanism to squeegee itself clean automatically - no need at all for any person to be involved in the process.
Bossco20
No. It's a holodeck on a Federation Starship. The cleaning phaser needs to destroy all organic matter, especially humanoid shaped organic matter
Eniff
Yeah. Holograms are kinda OP as fuck. It was never fully explored. Though there was one time they got close. Like, most of the time they just treated it as a cool excuse to have a random change of setting.
But those rooms could have been truly existentially terrifying.
AnbaricDragon
Super easy to make a program that looks just like a normal holodeck but is set to make a fake arch the first time you call for one. Just load up the program, leave, and the next person that loads up their own program in the nested holodeck will think that they're out until they finally get a call asking why they're not at their post. Of course they think that they ARE at their post because the holodeck extrapolates on it's own until told not to. But it would be a funny mindfuck to use sparingly
MerriMod
Doubly so if the person involved doesn't know they even entered a Holodeck in the first place. If the simulation was already running when they walked in, or if they were brought inside while unconscious or otherwise unaware. Once inside, the Holodeck could basically trap them there with an ever-adapting series of locations and NPCs modeled after the person's daily life. If the person has no control permissions over the Holodeck, they'd never truly know if they could escape.
Pilchard123
Wasn't that one of the Moriarty episodes?
wernerru
marthafarquar
dffksh
Enter at your own risk...
DontYouHateWhenAllUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken
".... No?"
"AWWWWWWWW!!!!"
BestUsernameICouldThinkOf
SirSmurfalot
I wonder what they would do with the other 58 minutes?
mangonel
This is a solid in the sense of having order, not a solid in the sense you can touch it. BS clickbait essentially.
Necrothean
Yes. That is a solid in this realm of science. Some of us grasped that. Some of us.
SinisterSlaw
Yeah, it seem like the term solid is pretty loosely defined.
Movabletiger
Solid defense
ThatNoPicklePeeThatNoPumpARum
The title is accurate so I don't see how its clickbait. It's more people fundamentally don't have a understanding of what a solid really is and are misunderstanding it.
AJMansfield
It's pretty clear from the article that the writer didn't understand it either, as keen as they are to spread their misunderstanding.
KurtopiaCreative
Aren't solids something like 99% empty space?
charliethewizard
I've been thinking about the holodeck a lot with the AI conversations over the past couple of years. Sherlock Holmes would be in the public domain, but what about the art assets in general? How much that is generated is done via 24th century AI? Or is it all the equivalent of Creative Commons licenses at that point in time? In Voyager I believe Tom Paris created the bar hangout they had at one point.
KilroyLichking
Chez Sandríne and yes he did. Though tom was a talented holo programmer so he likely just did all of the level design himself. Like any good programmer though he tends to recycle characters in his programs
mrthewhitee
The real sticky part is, how did they get away with recreating real live, current day people? Like Barkley creating the bridge crew or Geordi creating that warp engineer.
I know they both ended up in some trouble or another, but surely the punishment would be more than just a talking to, right?
SteveMND
I mean, we've had Captains that were LITERALLY brainwashed/controlled by a hostile alien force, and they are STILL in command. The normal standards of what would relieve a person from duty seem to be rather lax compared to the real world due to narrative reasons, so...
ReginaKasteen
If you relieved every captain of command who had a runin with some kind of bullshit psychic aliens, you wouldn't have many left. Maybe it's better to keep them in place so they know the warning signs next time?
piperdude
Copyright laws exist as a way to provide financial incentive for creators to create. Since nobody in the Federation really charges for anything anymore, you’d probably just have to credit the original author.
ReginaKasteen
I assume in the 24th century there are people who do nothing but create models and plugins for the holodeck all day.
TresusIbor
IM GONNA FUCK A WEREWOLF
blubberingbastard
Not without consent you won't
ElbowDeepInYou
(A)WOOOOOOOOOOOOO
BurningVeryImportantThings
wait a damn minute you're not @ThatGuy42 !
ThatGuy42
ScourgeOfAges
darkninja2992
Have fun with that, i'm going to get a dragon wife
ThatGuy42
rbudrick
TWO WEREWOLVES AT THE SAME TIME!
MajMalfunction2
ChareAndFlaff
DanOrtega
ITS GONNA BE A GANBANG!
rbudrick
Only if the werewolf has long since weened. Ba dum tsss
forcefulpuspus
Inside you there are two wolves...
rbudrick
They are inside and outside me at the same time!
CeoHuntingSeason
FabulouslyTiti
Hell yeah they are. ♥
valkrez
Good for you!
petpet3d
The other way around for me
mrpink83
Same! ;D
Firestar002
Light bridges anyone? I’d love to know how they determined it was ‘solid’. Could it hold mass or weight? Did it block air or water flow?
sunyudai
supersolid != solid, those are different terms. A supersolid is ordered, like crystal, but can still "flow" without friction. (The paper this is referencing opens with a line about how counterintuitive that concept is).
This isn't holodeck hardlight yet, and while it it is a tiny step closer to that - it's more exciting in the here and now because it looks like it will likely lead to improvements in quantum computing, allowing QCs to be cheaper to build and maintain, smaller, and more reliable.
Idsertian
So we're not at Symmetra levels of "From light into being" yet, then? Dang.
sunyudai
Yeah, this is more "We made light do something really weird and fucky at really small scales. Again..."
Idsertian
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