Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year 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-square233fedilinkarrow-up1507arrow-down130
arrow-up1477arrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square233fedilink
minus-squareAOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down3·edit-21 year 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-down1·1 year 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-down1·1 year agoI do believe that’s a freezer.
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minus-squareAOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoheat pump
minus-squareAssian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·1 year agoI have that device It is my phone
minus-squareTeppic@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year 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-down1·1 year 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