Scientists Stun Nematode Worms With UV Phaser Straight Out Of Star Trek

so you have to feed the target this chemical before you zap him? hardly comparable to a phaser.

just another shitty article.

haha

not to mention if its UV light, doesnt that mean if he goes out in the sun he will be stunned just the same?

PopSci you need to read these articles before you post them. Even Neil Branda knows this has nothing to do with a phaser.

university of canada???

They developed a really got stun tech though. If you put dithienylethene in a blow gun and shot it at people in sun light.

First of all, there's no such thing as "University of Canada". Secondly, this is absolutely nothing like a phaser, as anyone even remotely familiar with the concept of a phaser (i.e., everyone) could tell you. And finally, both the photochop and the caption are completely ridiculous, and not in a good way.

Nice try, though. Really.

@ sci-hi-fi

Sorry to tell you the article is real. Where as it is not the University of Canada, it should read the Simon Fraser University in Canada. You should read the original article before you make loud statements.

Um... Warp drive is about to be figured out kids... Since Dr. Alcuberri created a metric for warp bubble energy usage there have been loads of scientists working on all aspects of warp bubble theory. From Sheer on the ship, to perception of photons from inside the bubble.

I wish there were more reports on Warp Bubble theory so the research would get more attention.

i love bubbles!!! yay

To Seattleite: from technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23292/

Not to burst your bubble but physics wins out over that bubble theory. Issues with Quantum mechanics and instability at the leading edge of the theorized bubble seem to refute the possibility of it working.

"The conclusion is the result of classical thinking using the ideas of general relativity but physicists have long wondered what would happen if you threw quantum mechanics into the mix? Now Finazzi and pals have worked it. For a start, they say that the inside of the bubble would be filled with Hawking radiation, making life rather uncomfortable for any spacecraft within it.

They have also studied a property of a quantum field called the renormalised stress-energy tensor which should be well-behaved under normal circumstances. But in the front wall of Alcubierre's bubble travelling at superluminal speeds, the renormalised stress-energy tensor grows exponentially.

That strongly implies that such a bubble would be unstable. So it looks increasingly likely that, after a brief few years of excitement, Alcubierre's warp drive is impossible."

Nothing is impossible, just highly improbable to succeed. If it can be imagined, it can be worked on. Since when has a perceived impossibility stopped us from making the discoveries necessary to make the impossible possible?

lol thats totally retarted now what if we get this thing to work on humans how are we going to feed them the hemical

dumb as fuck