# Liquid light **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 3, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liquid-light/135040 "2002-11-03T00:12:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![insider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@insider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/insider)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liquid-light/135040/1 "2002-11-03T00:12:50Z")
Have scientists discoverd how to make liquid light? How can light be processed to form a liquid? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liquid-light/135040/2 "2002-11-03T00:58:46Z")
Ummm…liquid is one of the states of matter. Light is energy. The term “liquid” is irrelavant in terms of light. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liquid-light/135040/3 "2002-11-03T01:00:03Z")
I heard a vague report recently that light had somehow been made to display properties similar to those of a liquid, including surface tension, but this was just on a regular news programme. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liquid-light/135040/4 "2002-11-03T01:04:00Z")
[Here](http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992497) is a NewScientist article about it. ---
**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liquid-light/135040/5 "2002-11-03T03:02:16Z")
Anyone ever been to “Phosphorescent Bay” in Puerto Rico. I know that’s not what you’re talking about in this case, but the water actually glows green when it’s very dark outside. Stick your hand in, come out with a wet, glowing hand. VERY cool. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liquid-light/135040/6 "2002-11-03T13:47:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SexyWriter \* > \*\*Anyone ever been to “Phosphorescent Bay” in Puerto Rico. I know that’s not what you’re talking about in this case, but the water actually glows green when it’s very dark outside. Stick your hand in, come out with a wet, glowing hand. VERY cool. \*\* :smack: That’s the effect of micro-organisms in the water, **SexyWriter**. In other words, your hand was coated in green, glowing, slime. Let us know how the leporsy & gangrene works out, hmmmm? ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liquid-light/135040/7 "2002-11-03T14:21:50Z")
Liquid Light is the brand name of a photographic emulsion that can be brushed onto any material in order to use said material as receptor for a photographic print. Read all about it [**Here.**](http://www.rockaloid.com/products.html#liquid) I’m sure this is _not_ what you are talking about, however. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liquid-light/135040/8 "2002-11-03T19:22:47Z")
No, it’s easy. All you have to do is grow a couple of Trees of Light, and just collect the dews from them. Be careful about spiders, though.