How can photonics work without matter? I thought the problem was that you couldn’t make a switch, because light waves just pass through each other (the equations are linear, so the sum of two valid waves is also a valid wave).
I have an intuition that complex knots in magnetic field may be relatively stable and I linked an article that explores the topic of such knots. There are over100 ideas about the physics of ball lightnings and some of them explore quite exotic types of matter.
But the nature of such matter was not my central argument: I am more interested in population dynamic, assuming that such matter is possible.
How can photonics work without matter? I thought the problem was that you couldn’t make a switch, because light waves just pass through each other (the equations are linear, so the sum of two valid waves is also a valid wave).
I have an intuition that complex knots in magnetic field may be relatively stable and I linked an article that explores the topic of such knots. There are over100 ideas about the physics of ball lightnings and some of them explore quite exotic types of matter.
But the nature of such matter was not my central argument: I am more interested in population dynamic, assuming that such matter is possible.