superphoton

plural superphotons · alternative super-photon

1. figurativelyrarenatural sciencesA photonic Bose-Einstein condensate, comprised of thousands of photons sufficiently concentrated and cooled in an optical well.

   Similar difficulties arise if instead of three “photons” we imagine a single “superphoton” that responds to the numerical sum of all the colour charges.

   1987, Frank Wilczek, Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics, Norton, →ISBN, page 201

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   However, according to the principles of the General Relativity Theory, Sanger’s superphoton man cannot materially exist by lives in a world which has no relation to ours.

   1966, Arthur Charles Clarke, Congressional Record 1966-08-01: Volume 112, Superintendent of Government Documents, page 4060

   Without mentioning Lemaitre, Haldane pictured the universe as originating from one or a few such superphotons of almost infinite energy and sketched from this assumption the entire evolutionary history of matter and life.

   1999, Helge Kragh, Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 65