The Reverse Lightbulb

[Just-Chill]

Before I begin, I am simply going to state that I know absolutely nothing about the science of optics or light.

We tech enthusiasts seem to love RGB lights. I however, do not appreciate their "gamery" aesthetic.

I had a dream. I had a dream of a world where light can effortlessly be filled with darkness! Yes, I want lightbulbs that can emit darkness... or absorb light. This is probably not even possible, but I figured I would throw the idea out here anyway.  

 

Have a nice night

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

4 minutes ago, Just-Chill said:

Before I begin, I am simply going to state that I know absolutely nothing about the science of optics or light.

We tech enthusiasts seem to love RGB lights. I however, do not appreciate their "gamery" aesthetic.

I had a dream. I had a dream of a world where light can effortlessly be filled with darkness! Yes, I want lightbulbs that can emit darkness... or absorb light. This is probably not even possible, but I figured I would throw the idea out here anyway.  

 

Have a nice night

something similar to the  Deluminator  from Harry Potter?

[NumLock21]

 

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Ah yes. What you are looking for is called 'My Soul'

[HelplmChoking]

Hmmmm don't use a side panel window?

[Electronics Wizardy]

the oppisite of a light builb would be a ... solar panel, but due to how light works, you can't suck it up in a easy way(if you have a enough mass(insert yo mamma joke here) you can)

[HelplmChoking]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

the oppisite of a light builb would be a ... solar panel, but due to how light works, you can't suck it up in a easy way(if you have a enough mass(insert yo mamma joke here) you can)

 

There's also that weird material that absorbs/reflects no light. But it wouldn't suck light out of a room.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Rangaman42 said:

There's also that weird material that absorbs/reflects no light. But it wouldn't suck light out of a room.

so would be anything that is perfectly black, but in the real world nothing is perfectally black.

[WereCat]

Reversed lightbulb?

Like... It is OFF when you turn it ON?

Just switch cables in the switch to reverse its function.

[Squirrel724]

You can't really absorb light but this Vantablack stuff reflects the least amount of light of any material and is the darkest shade of black currently known to man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack

[NLD1st]

I'm no science expert but I do know that sound waves cancel each other out if they are the perfect opposites. 

Since light is a wave as well perhaps it works the same? But again we need a science guy 

[RAM555789]

I belive the object you are describing here is a black hole. An object that not even light can escape.

[NLD1st]

1 hour ago, RAM555789 said:

I belive the object you are describing here is a black hole. An object that not even light can escape.

yes.. yes that should do the job! And eat the whole planet at the same time that should so work perfectly!

[Sniperfox47]

3 hours ago, NLD1st said:

I'm no science expert but I do know that sound waves cancel each other out if they are the perfect opposites. 

Since light is a wave as well perhaps it works the same? But again we need a science guy 

Light isn't just a wave though. It's a particle too. Because of the short wavelength and a lot of the particle properties of light, it's very very difficult to create and time a wave perfectly enough to counterwave it. You also need to make sure their colision path is perfect, because the photons need to come into contact.

[RAM555789]

1 hour ago, NLD1st said:

yes.. yes that should do the job! And eat the whole planet at the same time that should so work perfectly!

Well there is acutally a theortical way to use a black hole to generate energy. Scientist belive if they made a super small black hole, were talking the size of quantum particles, they might be able to throw hydrogen particles at it and when the black hole tears it apart it reales energy/heat they can use to power things. Its very theortical and won't be seen for at least 100 years though.

[WMGroomAK]

14 hours ago, Just-Chill said:

Before I begin, I am simply going to state that I know absolutely nothing about the science of optics or light.

We tech enthusiasts seem to love RGB lights. I however, do not appreciate their "gamery" aesthetic.

I had a dream. I had a dream of a world where light can effortlessly be filled with darkness! Yes, I want lightbulbs that can emit darkness... or absorb light. This is probably not even possible, but I figured I would throw the idea out here anyway.  

 

Have a nice night

Not sure what you mean by emit darkness as how you see things is based on light entering your eyes either directly from a source or reflected off of a surface.  About the best way to get darkness is to get rid of any direct sources and have any stray light hitting a material that absorbs the spectrum and photons as opposed reflecting them (such as the Vantablack)...

[RAM555789]

34 minutes ago, Sniperfox47 said:

Light isn't just a wave though. It's a particle too. Because of the short wavelength and a lot of the particle properties of light, it's very very difficult to create and time a wave perfectly enough to counterwave it. You also need to make sure their colision path is perfect, because the photons need to come into contact.

Light also tends to do some weird quantum things when we are not observing it.

[rmast95]

So you want it to look how your post looks for dark theme users?

[Froody129]

On 13/04/2017 at 5:33 AM, EasonIDontKnowAnything said:

something similar to the  Deluminator  from Harry Potter?

Literally my first thought  

[ElZamo92]

On 14/04/2017 at 0:43 AM, NLD1st said:

I'm no science expert but I do know that sound waves cancel each other out if they are the perfect opposites. 

Since light is a wave as well perhaps it works the same? But again we need a science guy 

That would be a lot more complicated than it seems since light is both a wave and a particle at the same time....

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

just get a black hole. sheesh.

[Beef Boss]

2 hours ago, EasonIDontKnowAnything said:

just get a black hole. sheesh.

I heard Amazon has some, certified refurbished. 

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

1 hour ago, BadluckBrian said:

I heard Amazon has some, certified refurbished. 

they cheap?

[Lurick]

2 hours ago, BadluckBrian said:

I heard Amazon has some, certified refurbished. 

Gotta be careful, some sellers will claim they have black holes for sale but really they send you quasars or other anomalies instead.

[yathis]

On 4/12/2017 at 9:29 PM, Just-Chill said:

I want lightbulbs that can emit darkness... or absorb light.

They can emit less light, but to emit darkness is to not emit

Absorb light would be paintint the bulb black, but I think there is a color shift paint out there where you apply some voltage and it changes color so you use that as the bulbs glass, and hopefully you can get black color.