Confirmed by computer analysis.
Posted on 02/01/2018 10:26:59 AM PST by blam
The Chinese are building a laser that is 10 trillion times more intense than the sun and could rip apart space. Physicists say that this laser could be operational as early as 2023.
Physicist Ruxin Li and colleagues are breaking records with the most powerful pulses of light the world has ever seen. At the heart of their laser, called the Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast Laser Facility (SULF), is a single cylinder of titanium-doped sapphire about the width of a Frisbee. After kindling the light in the crystal and shunting it through a system of lenses and mirrors, the SULF distills it into pulses of mind-boggling power.
The end goal is to create a laser so powerful it can produce 100-petawatt laser pulses or 100 million billion watts. To put that number in context, that’s 10,000 times the power of all the world’s electrical grids combined. These immense and powerful pulses could be targeted at incredible precise spots measuring just three micrometers across – that’s 2000 times less than the thickness of a standard pencil.
This means the researchers could achieve a laser intensity 10 trillion trillion times greater than the sunlight striking earth. According to the Science Mag, this laser would be so powerful it “could rip apart empty space.” Physicists hope to achieve a phenomenon known as “breaking the vacuum,” whereby electrons are torn away from positrons (their antimatter counterparts) in the empty vacuum of space.
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“Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius. I like how that rolls out...”
Scientists building world’s most-powerful ‘SUPER LASERS’ that can RIP holes in space
Daily Star | 24 January 2018 | Anthony Blair
Posted on 01/24/2018 8:44:59 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
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Well then I guess the universe is doomed...
I was wondering the same thing. I guess China is such a lawless regime that it’s scientists are no longer bound by the law of conservation of energy.
I rather doubt the Chicoms are doing this just for science sake, a weapon that can knock out any incoming ICBM? They can do what they want militarily in Taiwan and southeast Asia, without fear of reprisal from the US?
I am so screwed.
I’ll look for the knockoff at Harbor Freight.
It will burn steel like a demon but the switch will break after a month of use.
And then you won’t be able to turn it off...
I’ll take the one that can clear the sidewalk of ferals at 100 yards.
It looks like we have until 2023.
Maybe we should put together a big Farewell Universe FU) Party. We can all get together somewhere to drink some bourbon, smoke some good cigars and watch the Chinese laser tear apart space.
The Chinese are building a laser that is 10 trillion times more intense than the sun and could rip apart space and cook a 1000 year old egg in 2 seconds.
(I somewhat bungled my response to this question in the earlier thread, so I’ll try again...)
The key is differentiating between power and energy.
The power of laser may be 100 petawatts, but it can produce that power for only a tiny amount of time, say 1 femtosecond.
100PW x 1fs = 100Ws. That’s very possible.
But there's always one part of the tool that is defective.
How about cutting the moon in two? Then we could have two half-moons all the time.
I have an impact socket set and a black finish 1/2 ratchet that have stood up to the same use as my front line vintage Craftsman tools.
I'll be darned. I didn't do a search because I just knew no-one but me would post this article. Shoot!
But what your excerpt actually said was...
"This means the researchers could achieve a laser intensity 10 trillion trillion times greater than the sunlight striking earth."
Or from the original article...
"If a 100-PW pulse can be focused to a spot measuring just 3 micrometers across, as Li is planning for the SEL, the intensity in that tiny area will be an astonishing 1024 watts per square centimeter (W/cm2)—some 25 orders of magnitude, or 10 trillion trillion times, more intense than the sunlight striking Earth."
I think the difference between 10 trillion and 10 trillion trillion is quite large.
I wonder how many 3 micrometer holes you would have to put (shoot) in an orbiting satellite to render it inoperable.
2 or 3 would probly be plenty. Watts the rate of fire gonna be on this thing?
"We're gonna need a bigger shark..."
LOL!....................
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