Scientists plan $1.5bn laser strong enough 'to tear the fabric of space'

Daily Mail ^ | Oct. 30, 2011 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Free ThinkerNY]

A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space could be built in Britain.

The major scientific project will follow in the footsteps of the Large Hadron Collider and will answer questions about the universe.

The laser will be capable of producing a beam of light so intense that it will be similar to the light the earth receives from the sun but focused on a speck smaller than a pin prick.

Scientists say it will be so powerful they will be able to boil the very fabric of space and create a vacuum.

A vacuum fizzles with mysterious particles that come in and out of existence but the phenomenon happens so fast that no-one has ever actually been able to prove it.

It is hoped the Extreme Light Infrastructure Ultra-High Field Facility would allow scientists to prove the particles are real by pulling the vacuum fabric apart.

Scientists even believe it might help them to prove whether other dimensions actually exist.

[NoLibZone]

[PENANCE]

Nothing could possibliye go wrong!

[TKeith]

Scientists say it will be so powerful they will be able to boil the very fabric of space...

OK, but how fast can it defrost a pound of hamburger?

[jonascord]

There is space vacuum, and hard vacuum. Space in the orbit area around Earth is sort of a pisspoor vacuum. There are gases up there, they are just too thin for us, and the paint chips, dust, nuts bolt and other stuff we have left up there makes even a geosynchronous orbit a challenge, right now, to get a package into orbit without an immediate collision. That’s why NASA talks about “launch windows” for orbital traffic. It’s like pulling out onto a busy city street at rush hour, blindfolded, without getting clobbered.

[PENANCE]

Nothing could possibliye possibly go wrong!

(hmmmm, ... that's the first thing that's ever gone wrong.)

[editor-surveyor]

As the Sorcerer’s Apprentice plays in the background...

[Chode]

[Vince Ferrer]

I think a big red self destruct button would be a perfectly reasonable design requirement.

[UCANSEE2]

It is hoped the Extreme Light Infrastructure Ultra-High Field Facility would allow scientists to prove the particles are real by pulling the vacuum fabric apart.

Why not? It's always good to drill a hole in the boat you are riding in.

Scientists even believe it might help them to prove whether other dimensions actually exist.

It just might.

[aruanan]

The laser will be capable of producing a beam of light so intense that it will be similar to the light the earth receives from the sun but focused on a speck smaller than a pin prick.

"Heh, heh. He said "prick."

[mazda77]

So space is in reality pseudo-vacuum? Now I’ll know it when I see it. JUST KIDDING!

[UCANSEE2]

That’s why NASA talks about “launch windows” for orbital traffic. It’s like pulling out onto a busy city street at rush hour, blindfolded, without getting clobbered.

[BenLurkin]

[aruanan]

the Extreme Light Infrastructure Ultra-High Field Facility

They're going to tear space a new one and they couldn't come up with anything better to call it than ELIUFF?

[the invisib1e hand]

lol.

[bgill]

Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks KoRn.

Montgomery Scott would love this.

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[GeronL]

Oh brother. That sounds like a bad thing.

[brytlea]

ROFL!

[SolidRedState]

They're going to tear space a new one and they couldn't come up with anything better to call it than ELIUFF?

Yeah. They could have called it the Refracting Energy Alimetric Laser Facility For Ultra Colliding Kevinic Dissipation.