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This should end well…

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O.K. Scientists (link) are now proposing a laser so powerful that it could actually tear a hole in space-time and boil a vacuum, according to Ryan Matthew Pierson. This from the technology which produced the 54 trillion dollar phone bill. It should cost 1 billion Pounds Sterling. Cheap… borrow it from the Chinese.

“The Ultra-High Field laser will be made up of 10 beams, each twice as powerful as the prototype lasers, allowing it to produce 200 petawatts of power – more than 100,000 times the power of the world's combined electricity production – for less than a trillionth of a second. It will cause the mysterious particles of matter and antimatter thought to make up a vacuum to be pulled apart, allowing scientists to detect the tiny electrical charges they produce. These "ghost particles", as they are known, normally annihilate one another as soon as they appear, but by using the laser to pull them apart, physicists believe they will be able to detect them. It could help to explain the mystery of why the universe contains far more matter than we have been able to detect by revealing what so called dark matter really is.” – Richard Gray (The Telegraph)

It’s actually would have 100,000 times all the electrical power produced on Earth, and be 200 times more powerful than any current laser. It would even dwarf the center of the sun in its intensity.

So why? To confirm or negate the possibility of “ghost particles” which are (apparently) subatomic particles which pop in and out of existence (our universe).

This could, then, confirm the existence of parallel universes. Of course, if it doesn’t reveal these “ghosts”, it might only mean the method was incorrect or insufficiently powerful. Oh yes, and someone is a billion Sterling richer. There are actually several European countries in the running to host it. The same folks who can’t rescue Greece or Spain…. They want to host a hole in space-time and anything which happens as a result, or comes through that hole.

Professor Wolfgang Sandner, coordinator of the Laserlab Europe network and president of the German Physics Society, said: "An extremely powerful laser should be able to pull these particles apart and keep them in existence for longer.”  That’s because these “ghost particles” apparently annihilate each other too quickly to detect and/or study them.

Sounds logical.

Look, I’m the last person you could accuse as being anti-science. This sounds to me like an interesting project which might yield a discovery which would revolutionize thinking and further research.

But….. like Mr. Pierson, I hope it doesn’t make the events of Half-Life come true.

 

Also… Fuzzy Logic could use that money for his gas and electric.

As I said: “This should end well…”    >.<

Reference video “Half-Life in 60 seconds”:

 

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Reply #26 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Polistes, reply 22
How do you "combine" a laser in the way that pic depicts, light does not work like that...
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I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think the idea is to get some kind of constructive interference  at the point where the lasers meet, and the picture is just not a geometrically-accurate image of the process. Instead, imagine all of the lasers aimed to form a cone, with the interesting stuff happening at the apex.

 

Quoting starkers, reply 26
I'm all for scientific advancement, especially in the field of medicine and anything that improves our quality of life, but this venture is sheer madness and I would rather see the money spent on cancer research, SIDS research, finding ways to cue heart disease, etc.
End of starkers's quote
Relativity was just a theory, too, until we got GPS. You never know what applications a bit of research might have until you study it in detail.

Reply #27 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Scoutdog, reply 26
You never know what applications a bit of research might have until you study it in detail.
End of Scoutdog's quote

So basically what you are saying, either we get a sonic screw driver or we get killed by those spider thingies from the move, "The Mist."...

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Reply #28 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting G_Bison, reply 27
So basically what you are saying, either we get a sonic screw driver or we get killed by those spider thingies from the move, "The Mist."...
End of G_Bison's quote
Or a better mousetrap. There's always a chance of a better mousetrap.

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Scoutdog, reply 26
Quoting starkers,
reply 26
I'm all for scientific advancement, especially in the field of medicine and anything that improves our quality of life, but this venture is sheer madness and I would rather see the money spent on cancer research, SIDS research, finding ways to cue heart disease, etc.

Relativity was just a theory, too, until we got GPS. You never know what applications a bit of research might have until you study it in detail.

End of Scoutdog's quote

Studying heart disease or ways to cure cancer is one thing, but devices that could tear the fabric of space is another.  The consequences of that could be far more devastating than the A-Bomb or any other weapon of mass destruction scientists saw fit to inflict on mankind.

Quoting Scoutdog, reply 28

Quoting G_Bison, reply 27So basically what you are saying, either we get a sonic screw driver or we get killed by those spider thingies from the move, "The Mist."...

Or a better mousetrap. There's always a chance of a better mousetrap.

End of Scoutdog's quote

Again, it's one thing to build a better mousetrap, but if that mousetrap has other environmental consequences, then it becomes a liability rather than useful.  So, when you point a device with enormous destructive potential into neighbouring space, chance are high that environmental consequences can/will ensue.

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Its more than that. A rift in the continuum so close to the Earth will, not might but will, have devastating effects on the planet to the cost of some 7 billion lives lost. Scientists simply do not know enough about space/time to go mucking around with it. I'm all for the advancement of science but not at the cost of human life or any kind of life for that matter. What they're futzin' around with is called zero point energy. A vacuum is not empty by any means. This has been studied very thoroughly. A scintillating device had detected minute flashes of light inside a vacuum chamber. These flashes are the elemental particles destroying each other. Let them study such things inside one of these chambers or one built to contain the enormous energies needed to separate them. When the chamber and its surroundings are destroyed then perhaps they'll think twice about what they are doing. Something to think about. In the original Star Trek series it was said that you cannot warp out, as it were, close to a planet because the power generated by the warp engines could rip a hole in space, thus endangering the planet. This is because of the planet's mass and the way that mass warps space around it to create a gravity well. Remember the rubber sheet experiment? The more mass a planet has the deeper the well, the more the sheet is distorted to contain it. Einstein's equation E=MC squared.......mass and energy are equivalent, two manifestations of the same thing. The more energy created the more mass there is. Disrupt the space/time distortion around a planet, increasing the amount of warping and lord knows what will happen.