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Based on the principle of noise cancelling headphones, I was wondering if it would be possible to do the same thing with light? I.E. If you had a light source and then introduced a device that output a light wave with the same amplitude but with inverted phase, would the interference cancel out the light source and create darkness?
I'm a writer working on a piece with some science fiction elements, so I'm mainly interested in the theoretical possibility rather than actually making something. You can assume that any required technology that we don't have could exist.
I'm not a physicist so please don't just reply with - oh that's not possible due to [insert scientist here]'s Principle. I won't know what you mean. But please if you have any thoughts on how this could be done theoretically or actually, let me know. Thanks
I'm a writer working on a piece with some science fiction elements, so I'm mainly interested in the theoretical possibility rather than actually making something. You can assume that any required technology that we don't have could exist.
I'm not a physicist so please don't just reply with - oh that's not possible due to [insert scientist here]'s Principle. I won't know what you mean. But please if you have any thoughts on how this could be done theoretically or actually, let me know. Thanks