Re: MBI: "Thing" - My newest, top secret "the product with no name"
Of course we are interested
My headache of the last few hours has cleared so there's a far better chance I'll understand it :twothumbs
Tgwnn
OK, so if you need the photons from your flashlight to be able to illuminate a space within a darkbeam created by antiphotons, you simply use a flashlight that projects a quarkless stream of positrons and electrons.
These recombine to form photons, which would then be visible.
If you accidentally emit quarks as well, the process would instead result in a death ray (see other patent...), and the beam would be an anti-matter beam that annihilates bosons and other useful stuff that holds us and other stuff together.
(This is a bad thing)
The Pentagon pays well for bad things though, so, its a living at least.
The prototype darkbeam uses a more off the shelf approach.
The first beam is pure light (photons) emitted by an off the shelf LED. This beam is then modified by an obstructor element that absorbs and/or reflect the photons, preventing them from illuminating what was in their path.
If there are other light sources present, for example, a giant ball of hydrogen gas undergoing nuclear fusion might be present such that ~ 8 minutes later, its photons might be hitting where you want to project your darkness. More proximal sources, such as filaments that are working like resistance heaters, that also give off small amounts of photons as a by product, can be found to also cast small areas of light...much more quickly than the more distal sources.
Obstructor elements must be installed to block the path of those photons as well.
Examples of obstructor elements can be your hand, for small areas, tree's, especially with prolific photosynthesis processing surface areas, or rooms with no windows, etc...depending upon your application.
So, by causing an interruption in photon supply to a surface that would otherwise have been illuminated, you can project an area of darkness instead.
