Mad Scientists Craft Atomic Laser
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Therumancer" post="7.339931.13753035 said:Well in Star Wars I believe they use Blasters, which are a particle projection technology which is a bit differant than focused light./quote]
De Broglie would like a word with you...
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Awww, don't let it bother you vansau. I'm sure someone out there still thinks your special!vansau said:
I do thank you for getting definition of mad scientist correct. Taking over the world with an astonishingly high powered coherent beam of x-rays is what mad engineers do. Mad scientists want to study a mad hypothesis: like whats happening INSIDE OF STARS (queue maniacal laughter).
Actually, scientific articles are really quite short. Scientists are far too busy, and poorly paid, to put together 3000 page reports willy nilly. I certainly wouldn't read it. The report in Nature, which I havn't spotted in a very cursory search yet actually, is probably only a couple pages in length (albeit with tiny font).Abandon4093 said:
Its the government reports that are 3000 pages in length and accomplish approximately nothing.
Whats there to learn from the sun. It's made of mostly hydrogen and helium, it burns super hot. And every 11 years it shoots out more energy than usual. I's not gona blow up anytime soon and if it were to well bugger all we could do. Now science wheres my jetpack and hover car. You promised me one 50 years ago and I still don't have them.
And quit ruining everything.Random Argument Man said:ATOMIC LASERS YAY! To study the sun? Awwwwww....
The heat thing isn't that scary. They're talking about heating up objects to that temp on a quantum scale.Daniel_Rosamilia said:
Besides, the scarier bit has already been done. Today's experimental fusion reactors heat up the hydrogen gas inside to hundreds of millions of degrees F. That's a tad scarier.
Not soon enough, my friend. Not soon enough.The_root_of_all_evil said:So, how long until we can affix thisto sharks?
Next up, tricorders. Portable scanning devices that can "peek" inside someone, give accurate measurements, and allow for immediate prognoses.Alpha Maeko said:
Oh wait...
http://www.gizmag.com/general-electric-vscan-handheld-ultrasound-scanner/13180/
Well...damn. I guess all we have left are hand-held phasers, anti-and-artificial gravity, and transporters before we really are living in Roddenberry's world.
Oh God I wish. Sadly, this new tech isn't likely to help. Unless they can find a way to bump up the lasers end-result heating from a few million to a few hundred million degrees, it's not that handy. As far as fusion is concerned, anyway.Johnson McGee said:
I'm making what is likely a woefully ill-informed assumption, but based on what I know, I'm not seeing this new laser being used in that way.
Besides, achieving fusion isn't a challenge anymore. We've already done that. The new challenge is making it stable and getting it to output more energy than is put in to start the reaction.
Oh sure, just because a scientist wants to make an atomic laser, that makes them mad! At least they're doing something to advance the human race, unlike those anchors we call politicians.
Oh sure, it starts out as a tool for science, next thing you know they're launching it into space and using it to turn Korea into an island chain.
Just sayin'
Just sayin'
Now I know I'm probably being dumb, but it seems a little odd to try be shooting random shit at the one big yellow ball we have keeping us alive. And if we shoot it at other stars, wouldn't it take years for data to come back to us or something. Shot at wrong star, gonna take hundreds of millions of years for it to get back. Hit a planet, wiped out another planet with life by mistake.
Fahrenheit? Fahrenheit!? It's not the 1950s any more, y'know. Next you'll be telling me it's 18 cubits in length.vansau said:
Win.Oirish_Martin said:Jesus, an ATOMIC laser?
Oh wait, I think many lasers produce coherent light from atoms
idodo35 said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_tactical_laserSelvec said:
I'm more concerned about electronic devices that heal themselves with liquid metal [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201102888/abstract].
Now how many inventions until we trigger the robot holocaust?
About four.
Cheers.oktalist said:Win.Oirish_Martin said:Jesus, an ATOMIC laser?
Oh wait, I think many lasers produce coherent light from atoms
I shouldn't have snapped, but working in the field of atomic physics, this kind of ZOMGASM IT HAS THE WORD ATOMIC IN THE NAEM DERP DERP overreaction is why I call myself a quantum optics researcher - better to just have a guaranteed blank reaction than anything from people thinking I want to blow stuff up (and thinking that's awesome) to people thinking I want to blow stuff up (and thinking that's horrific).
Atoms - 99.9999% of the times you encounter them, they aren't blowing up in your face.
vansau said:
OT: I find it astounding that science has advanced so far that regular people simply doing their jobs are doing mad science[footnote]
Well, that's all right and good, especially dodging the Dr. Evil Doomsday 'Laser' and everything. But let's be sure this wn't cause a hackneyed bullshit movie plot, like...
