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World's most powerful laser to tear apart the vacuum of space

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World's most powerful laser to tear apart the vacuum of space - Telegraph
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2055360/Giant-1bn-laser-strong-tear-fabric-space-built-Britain.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
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The Ultra-High Field laser will be made up of 10 beams, each twice as powerful as the prototype lasers, allowing it to produce 200 petawatts of power – more than 100,000 times the power of the world's combined electricity production – for less than a trillionth of a second.
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allowing it to produce 200 petawatts of power. [snip]

At the focal point, the intensity of the light will produce conditions that are so extreme they do not exist even in the centre of our sun.
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Now that's a laser I want to play with :D

Interesting Idea but I fail to see how it can separate ghost particles?

Lase
 
Lol I have no idea, just thought I'd share this with the Laser Gods :crackup:
 
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By the way, If the focused point creates conditions that aren't found in our sun, won't that just obliterate anything in it's path?

How can you hope to gather data from a melted computer?

Lase
 
Thats pretty awesome. I would love to see the size of the capacitors on that baby. I bet it would leave a footprint much larger than the LHC though...
 
sopark4000 said:
You know when they wanted to invent these crazy things called telephones there was a guy like you who said something similar.
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Yes but was the economy this bad back then?












Edit: No it wasn't.
 
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sopark4000 said:
You know when they wanted to invent these crazy things called telephones there was a guy like you who said something similar.
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Misanthrop said:
Yes but was the economy this bad back then?

Edit: No it wasn't.
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Long Depression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"In the United States, economists typically refer to the Long Depression as the Depression of 1873–79"

Telephone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric telephone by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in March 1876."
 
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Misanthrop said:
Damn!
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Look I understand where you're coming from but when an economy is bad it means we need to be more technologically innovative not less, it is very easy to use a bad economy as a reason not to take the risks associated with innovation but abandoning pure research just isn't the way to go. There are a lot of other areas where cutting funding would be more practical for example (picks up flame shield) the war on drugs. Millions of our citizens locked in cages costing tens of thousands of dollars each year per person just for altering there state of mind in the privacy of there own homes. Decriminalize it, regulate it and tax it and this country would be much better off economically and socially. Before anybody pulls the "but what about our children" argument just know that the NIDA did a study and it showed that most youths found it easier to purchase illegal drugs than it was to purchase legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco and the reason for that is because there is no regulation in an underground market, drug dealers don't ask for ID before selling drugs.
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Sorry for taking this topic so off track
 
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sopark4000 said:
Look I understand where you're coming from but when an economy is bad it means we need to be more technologically innovative not less, it is very easy to use a bad economy as a reason not to take the risks associated with innovation but abandoning pure research just isn't the way to go. There are a lot of other areas where cutting funding would be more practical for example (picks up flame shield) the war on drugs. Millions of our citizens locked in cages costing tens of thousands of dollars each year per person just for altering there state of mind in the privacy of there own homes. Decriminalize it, regulate it and tax it and this country would be much better off economically and socially. Before anybody pulls the "but what about our children" argument just know that the NIDA did a study and it showed that most youths found it easier to purchase illegal drugs than it was to purchase legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco and the reason for that is because there is no regulation in an underground market, drug dealers don't ask for ID before selling drugs.
/Rant over

Sorry for taking this topic so off track
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I agree with most of what you said, and to be honest the U.K by itself needs a couple of trillion to get it back on its feet.

I was just thinking that can't the LHC etc etc do / be capable of those things already?

In fact many top drug advisors have suggested decriminalizing most drugs apart from heroin and all the really bad ones, then as you said.. quality controlling it, taxing it and making laws for how much you can have on you at a certain time and still call it legal.. age limits etc.. I smoke a bit of weed every now and again and that's all.. but if I was looking for drugs and I had a choice over a dealer or a place to buy them where I knew exactly what was being put into it.. I know what i would choose.
 
Misanthrop said:
I agree with most of what you said, and to be honest the U.K by itself needs a couple of trillion to get it back on its feet.

I was just thinking that can't the LHC etc etc do / be capable of those things already?

In fact many top drug advisors have suggested decriminalizing most drugs apart from heroin and all the really bad ones, then as you said.. quality controlling it, taxing it and making laws for how much you can have on you at a certain time and still call it legal.. age limits etc.. I smoke a bit of weed every now and again and that's all.. but if I was looking for drugs and I had a choice over a dealer or a place to buy them where I knew exactly what was being put into it.. I know what i would choose.
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While I don't think drugs like heroin are good to abuse keep in mind that (at least in the US) more people are killed every year by alcohol than ALL OTHER ILLEGAL DRUGS COMBINED. So you kind of need to adjust your opinion of what a "bad drug" is. For example heroin is illegal in the US but fentanyl (a drug that is 50x the strength of heroin) is legal for prescription use. Basically drug laws and what is considered a "bad" drug is pretty much arbitrary. Even when it comes to drugs like heroin what is worse? A person getting street heroin of an unknown purity or quality resulting in possible medical problems and also economically supporting violent drug cartels or on the other hand a person getting heroin from a regulated source where the quality and purity of the heroin is known and the person is monitored.
 
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