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Scientists plan $1.5bn laser strong enough 'to tear the fabric of space'
Daily Mail ^
| Oct. 30, 2011
| Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 10/30/2011 6:38:40 PM PDT by 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.
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To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
10/30/2011 6:57:45 PM PDT
by
NoLibZone
(Occupy is the DNC's use of children,indigent & infirm to push back TeaParty calls for smaller gov't)
To: Grizzled Bear
Nothing could possibliye go wrong!
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posted on
10/30/2011 6:58:15 PM PDT
by
PENANCE
To: Free ThinkerNY
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?
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posted on
10/30/2011 6:58:35 PM PDT
by
TKeith
To: mazda77
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.
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posted on
10/30/2011 6:58:54 PM PDT
by
jonascord
(Politicians should be pelted with human manure, weekly, to remind them of their worth to society.)
To: PENANCE
Nothing could possibliye possibly
go wrong! (hmmmm, ... that's the first thing that's ever gone wrong.)
25
posted on
10/30/2011 7:01:32 PM PDT
by
PENANCE
To: Free ThinkerNY
As the Sorcerer’s Apprentice plays in the background...
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posted on
10/30/2011 7:02:49 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
10/30/2011 7:03:55 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I think a big red self destruct button would be a perfectly reasonable design requirement.
To: Free ThinkerNY
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.
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posted on
10/30/2011 7:06:58 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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."
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posted on
10/30/2011 7:07:45 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: jonascord
So space is in reality pseudo-vacuum? Now I’ll know it when I see it. JUST KIDDING!
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posted on
10/30/2011 7:08:35 PM PDT
by
mazda77
(and I am a Native Texan)
To: jonascord; mazda77
Thats why NASA talks about launch windows for orbital traffic. Its like pulling out onto a busy city street at rush hour, blindfolded, without getting clobbered.
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posted on
10/30/2011 7:11:42 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: the invisib1e hand
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posted on
10/30/2011 7:11:58 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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?
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posted on
10/30/2011 7:12:08 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: aruanan
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posted on
10/30/2011 7:12:46 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
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posted on
10/30/2011 7:31:55 PM PDT
by
bgill
(The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
To: KoRn; AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; ...
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posted on
10/30/2011 7:37:20 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Grizzled Bear; KevinDavis; SunkenCiv
Oh brother. That sounds like a bad thing.
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posted on
10/30/2011 7:39:13 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: kittymyrib
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posted on
10/30/2011 7:44:13 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(An ounce of chocolate is worth a pound of cure)
To: aruanan
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.
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posted on
10/30/2011 7:51:57 PM PDT
by
SolidRedState
(I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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