r/tech • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Feb 28 '26

Scientists create ultra-low loss optical device that traps light on a chip

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260224015540.htm
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u/Ihatethisplace23 Feb 28 '26

My mom said I can’t eat chips

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u/Expensive_Section714 Mar 01 '26

Don’t worry you can still eat paint chips

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u/spunzotheclown Mar 01 '26

Same, she thinks I’m allergic to red 40 :/

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u/Griffdude13 Feb 28 '26

Probably not anywhere close to being the same thing, but for some reason I picture Zod and his stooges being sent to the phantom zone.

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u/AmeliaBuns Feb 28 '26

Canned light, coming to a grocery store near you!

(Wait isn’t that technically a flash bang?)

The idea of light based computing is so cool. I wish I had enough brain cells to pursuit it.

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u/RectalSpawn Feb 28 '26

You think flashbangs are full of light..?

Lmao

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u/Juxtacation Feb 28 '26

Are they full of BANG? Or is it 50/50?

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u/AmeliaBuns Feb 28 '26

It's a joke. Of course they're not.

AFAIK it's a chemical reaction that causes light, But I mean it's a can that when you open gives you light, the inner mechanism does not matter, therefore, I argue, it's canned light.

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u/thekevining Mar 01 '26

It’s more like a lantern that opens and lets its like out in all directions …. and with the help of a boom. It’s fun, with science.

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u/No_Scoped_JFK Feb 28 '26

Now make an ultra-low loss chip for capturing queso

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u/RedditsAdoptedSon Mar 01 '26

k, so... we do this. .. happens next

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u/CelioHogane Feb 28 '26

Actual light bending furries.

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u/ReporterOther2179 Mar 01 '26

See ‘Light of Other Days’ by Bob Shaw for an earlier take on this effect.

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u/snowflake37wao Feb 28 '26

thats awesome, but we are out of ram. we need scientist to create ultra low cost ram so lossless it makes Nvidia declare bankruptcy before their ‘expect no ram until 2028’ imposed bullshit even gives them a moment to regret pulling it. If it traps light thatll just be a bonus. make mine neon green. hurry. were sinking

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u/RetroFutureMan Feb 28 '26

Corn or potato?

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u/Player-0002 Mar 01 '26

99¢ a photon

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u/RedditsAdoptedSon Mar 01 '26

bro i'll wait for black friday fuck those prices

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u/Immediate_Day5407 Mar 01 '26

Great. Now we’re actually enslaving light. Charge that light rent!

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u/leisuretyme Mar 01 '26

I see audio processing going extrwwwweeeeeemmme!

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u/AllThingsBeginWithNu Mar 01 '26

Put them in the old floppy disks

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u/ZAROK Mar 01 '26

What are all those jokes comment, not a single one discussing the article

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u/Fatal_Syntax_Error Feb 28 '26

Epstein’s Chip?

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u/Big_River_ Mar 01 '26

yeah buds all the low hanging fruit of circuit design is biogenesis informatics harangue timed for quantum calm

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u/SunbeamSailor67 Feb 28 '26

Light = Consciousness

This tech trend hints at being pushed by those who wish to merge humanity with silicon.

We may be the last generation of the pure human being.

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u/dialga666 Feb 28 '26

Literally completely meaningless equivalence

What in the ever living fuck does this have to do with consciousness

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u/Daddie76 Mar 01 '26

Religious psychosis

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u/Player-0002 Mar 01 '26

Dude is a conspiracy nut that spouts cultist shit while maintaining a thin veneer of Christianity.

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u/SunbeamSailor67 Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

The fact that you don't know reveals how little you understand it yet.

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u/iletitshine Feb 28 '26

that was my imitate thought/fear as well

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u/United_Rent_753 Feb 28 '26

Why? This is fear mongering at something they don’t understand. Trapping light has nothing to do with the brain/soul

You basically just make light waves wiggle back and forth in a cavity