Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoProbably a stupid question, but will we ever have something like a microwave to make things cold? Is there a reason this can't exist?lemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square238fedilinkarrow-up1515arrow-down131
arrow-up1484arrow-down1imageProbably a stupid question, but will we ever have something like a microwave to make things cold? Is there a reason this can't exist?lemmy.dbzer0.comMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square238fedilink
minus-squareAOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down3·edit-22 years agoThis is a bit like asking if we could build a flashlight that emits a beam of darkness I think
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minus-squareAOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 years agoShooting something with “cold energy beams” is an anti-microwave We aren’t talking about machines to make things cold, I was asked if we could make microwaves that make stuff cold
minus-squarethe_sisko@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 years agoI do believe that’s a freezer.
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minus-squareAOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoheat pump
minus-squareAssian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·2 years agoI have that device It is my phone
minus-squareTeppic@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoVery much so, and equally possible in theory (interference patterns with light exist, light cancellation could work somewhat like noise cancelling) but also equally impossible to do at anything much above an atomic scale.
minus-squareUnicodeHamSic [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 years agoThat’s a fog machine
This is a bit like asking if we could build a flashlight that emits a beam of darkness I think
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Shooting something with “cold energy beams” is an anti-microwave
We aren’t talking about machines to make things cold, I was asked if we could make microwaves that make stuff cold
I do believe that’s a freezer.
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heat pump
I have that device
It is my phone
Very much so, and equally possible in theory (interference patterns with light exist, light cancellation could work somewhat like noise cancelling) but also equally impossible to do at anything much above an atomic scale.
That’s a fog machine