Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 10 months 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-square243fedilinkarrow-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 · 10 months agomessage-square243fedilink
minus-squareAOCapitulator [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down3·edit-210 months 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]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·10 months 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-down1·10 months agoI do believe that’s a freezer.
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minus-squareAssian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·10 months agoI have that device It is my phone
minus-squareTeppic@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months 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-down1·10 months 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