superphoton
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[edit]superphoton (plural superphotons)
- (rare, physics, figurative) A photonic Bose-Einstein condensate, comprised of thousands of photons sufficiently concentrated and cooled in an optical well.
- 1966, Arthur Charles Clarke, Congressional Record 1966-08-01: Volume 112[1], Superintendent of Government Documents, page 4060:
- However, according to the principles of the General Relativity Theory, Sanger’s superphoton man cannot materially exist by lives in a world which has no relation to ours.
- 1999, Helge Kragh, Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe[3], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 65:
- Without mentioning Lemaitre, Haldane pictured the universe as originating from one or a few such superphotons of almost infinite energy and sketched from this assumption the entire evolutionary history of matter and life.
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[edit]photonic Bose-Einstein condensate
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