Posted on 01/24/2018 8:44:59 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
Boffins in Shanghai, China, have been designing the world's most powerful laser.
The team has already made history with its earlier invention, the Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast Laser Facility have already set records.
The machine is small enough to fit on a tabletop, and contains a disc, the width of a frisbee, which is made of titanium-topped sapphires.
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This year physicist Ruxin Li and his team are planning on building a laser that will pack a mind-boggling 100 petawatt burst.
Called the Station of Extreme Light, the team hopes the laser will be able to tear a hole in the fabric of space — a phenomenon known as "breaking the vacuum".
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a phenomenon known as “breaking the vacuum”.
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We called it “Cutting the Cheese”
Baloney. What a bunch of nonsense.
Also, what could go wrong?
yep. Whack one planet in our solar system and the whole system loses equilibrium.
See how smart that is!
‘The Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast’
I think I saw that in a dirty movie once...and ONCE was enough! ;)
I would like to publicly acknowledge the denizens of the U.K. for bringing us the term “boffins.”
In Quantum Physics space itself is physical and can be folded and effect by gravity and energy. Ask yourself this question what was before the universe? What is the universe expanding into? The answer is nothing and nothing itself is different than empty space, because space can be measured.
“Whack one planet in our solar system and the whole system loses equilibrium.”
Next thing you know the whole galaxy just tipped over
Hey! Nothing can too be measured. I know this because Mueller has a whole lot of nothing on Trump.
Lizardo and Hikita already did this in 1938.
“The combination of the 100 PW laser and the XFEL will initiate exploration of the vacuum birefringence, one of the most prominent strong-field quantum-electrodynamic effects, says Ruxin Li, the project leader. Normally a vacuum is thought of as completely empty — but according to quantum electrodynamics, it is actually full of virtual particles that continually appear and vanish.”
“I would like to publicly acknowledge the denizens of the U.K. for bringing us the term “boffins.””
You should see www.theregister.com.uk. It’s all boffins and punters over there.
My reaction, as a Ph.D. in Physics, is the opposite. Not saying that they will do it.
What are they going to do?
i have no idea how that would work!
Tearing the universe a new one...
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