I wonder what impact this would have made on Marilyn Monroe. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
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Posted on 08/16/2013 10:07:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In quite an eerie feat, physicists have floated microscopic diamonds in midair using laser beams.
Researchers have already used lasers to levitate extremely small particles, such as individual atoms, but this is the first time that the technique has worked on a nanodiamond, which, in this case, measures just 100 nanometers (3.9 x 10-8 inches) across, or more than 1,000 times thinner than a fingernail.
In the new study, the physicists from the University of Rochester relied on the fact that a laser beam, which is made up of photons, creates a tiny force that usually can't be felt.....
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Shhhhhh!!!!
Light speed diamond cannon...
Laser hits first heating/softening the impact area, then the hard substance impacts at sublight.
The stuff SciFi dreams are made of ;)
Imagine the kinetic energy. Who needs Rods from God?
Reminds me of watching dust swirl and float in a sunbeam coming through a window..
(Sir Bedevere) “What also floats in air?”
(Various peasants) “very small rocks”
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