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I was sitting around, bored (as usual), and i remembered the Joule. The Joule is truly an interesting unit, because it is power over distance. So, if one were to convert milliwats and see how much Joules is equal to 1 milliwatt, we could measure the power of a laser using distance in meters (a joule is the amount of energy it takes to lift a object that weighs one newton one meter). Is it actually possible to measure laser power using Joules? I got confused in my research over all the different mesaurments :