Re: convert light into energy

[Larry Smith <Larry.Smith@SNOW.EDU>]

At 11:34 PM -0500 2/1/00, Joseph Bellina wrote:
> I recall you writing about an electron to photon to electron
> transformation...or is my memory wrong?

Here's the paragraph from my original inquiry:

At 12:13 PM -0700 2/1/00, Larry Smith wrote:
> The one that baffles me is about the Nightcrawler (of the X-Men) who can do
> teleportation.  "Today's technology: Scientists in Austria moved a photon
> by converting the light packet into energy and then reconverting it across
> the lab."  What kind of energy are we talking about here?  What kind of
> conversion?

Larry


> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Larry Smith
> wrote:
>
> > At 2:52 PM -0500 2/1/00, Joseph Bellina wrote:
> > > In the comics it is the same Nightcrawler after the teleportation.  In
> > > the laboratory experiment described, I don't think anyone would claim it
> > > is the same electron...so the comic version and the Viennese version are
> > > not the same.
> >
> > What electron?  It was a _photon_ they converted to energy.
> >
> > Larry