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Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 年前

Probably a stupid question, but will we ever have something like a microwave to make things cold? Is there a reason this can't exist?

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Probably a stupid question, but will we ever have something like a microwave to make things cold? Is there a reason this can't exist?

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  • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    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

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        I do believe that’s a freezer.

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            heat pump

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      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.

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      I have that device

      It is my phone

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      That’s a fog machine

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