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Laser moves matter






The first search result for 9.6kW , 7mm and macroscopic amounts of matter is not transportation in my head. ;D
 
Switch said:
The first search result for 9.6kW , 7mm and macroscopic amounts of matter is not transportation in my head. ;D
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You'd only need about 700,000,000 of those lasers to travel from California to Florida.
 
That's insane, I wonder what that 105kW laser would do, it's posted in here somewhere.
 
If someone put 10 kW of CO2 laser up your ass, you'd go more than 7 mm up ;D :D ;D Guaranteed !!! Damn, I'd go several feet :)

Mike
 
LOL! That made me laugh for ages, thanks for that Mike ;D ;D

I guess optical trapping would slightly work on this principle.
 
iewed said:
You'd only need about 700,000,000 of those lasers to travel from California to Florida.
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Pardon my geography skills, but coming from canada, I had to think about that. I thought it was a joke, as I thought California was IN Florida... Jeez, I need to stop missing geography class... Lol :P
 
kylefrikkentoth said:
Pardon my geography skills, but coming from canada, I had to think about that. I thought it was a joke, as I thought California was IN Florida... Jeez, I need to stop missing geography class... Lol :P
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the only thing Ca and Fl have in comman is its sunny and they grow oranges lol
 
Here's a new story on this sort of thing - this propulsion system uses a gigawatt pulsed IR laser!

Laser-Powered Lightcraft "At the Cusp of Commercial Reality" | Popular Science

But seriously, I think it will be a long, long time before this sort of thing would be used for any sort of manned aircraft - I don't think I'd want to ride in a vehicle that's being hammered away at by a barrage of gigawatt laser pulses! Just look at what happens when the space shuttle looses a few of its heat deflecting ceramic tiles....
 
They actually use lasers moving matter in a much, much smaller scale nearly everyday. By isolating particles in a vacuum and hitting them with photons from lasers at just the right angle and power, scientists actually cool down these atoms by reducing their speeds by an extraordinary amount. These atoms about as close as scientists have gotten at replicating bose-einstein condensate
 
Byrnz93 said:
They actually use lasers moving matter in a much, much smaller scale nearly everyday. By isolating particles in a vacuum and hitting them with photons from lasers at just the right angle and power, scientists actually cool down these atoms by reducing their speeds by an extraordinary amount. These atoms about as close as scientists have gotten at replicating bose-einstein condensate
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That's awesome. So you're telling me lasers can actually produce cold?
 
yeah, temperature is dependant on kinetic energy. Firing photons, with just the right energy, at particles reduces their speed, thus reducing their temperature
 
Byrnz93 said:
yeah, temperature is dependant on kinetic energy. Firing photons, with just the right energy, at particles reduces their speed, thus reducing their temperature
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Woah. So a freeze ray hahaha
 
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