Feynman got his dollar

[eub]

so hattifattener and I can each have fifty cents: a vampire casts no shadow. It must transmit 100% of incident light. Still, a vampire is visible; it does reflect light. Hence, a vampire has total optical gain exceeding unity.

Placing any optical element of this sort within a sufficiently well-mirrored chamber will create a runaway optical amplifier, which if it is to be applied to peacetime uses must be equipped with an exceedingly fast-reacting system modulating absorbent damping. If this hurdle can be overcome -- perhaps using a nonlinear element? -- vampires provide unlimited free and non-polluting energy.

Comments

Re: did someone say nonlinear optics?

[jinian.livejournal.com]

vampire quanta, if you will

Deb, I don't care if you're straight. Marry me anyway, and take that boy as a mistress.

I don't know where you were at 11:00 last night. Tell me.

Re: did someone say nonlinear optics?

[eub.livejournal.com]

cicisbeo: The name formerly given in Italy to the recognized gallant or cavalier servente of a married woman. [It.; of uncertain origin: according to the Vocab. della Crusca, perhaps an inversion of bel cece ‘beautiful chick (pea)’; used just in the same sense.]

Re: did someone say nonlinear optics?

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I am certain that I have already asked you to marry me. Good thing this is a big house.

Re: did someone say nonlinear optics?

[thatmathchick.livejournal.com]

Last night I was at home slaving over a hot stack of precalc projects. Now I get to head home (yes I've been at work writing and copying exams) and hopefully get food *and* a warm bath.

Really, I need to join in on these conversations earlier. Also, with more of the sleep. If you warn me, I'll bring home all the pertinent books from the office.

And you don't have to marry me to get my silly abuses of quantum physics :) Though you're welcome to help me get that boy as a mistress...