Posted on 11/01/2011 10:56:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space could be built in Britain as part major new scientific project that aims to answer some of the most fundamental questions about our universe.
Due to follow in the footsteps of the Large Hadron Collider, the latest "big science" experiment being proposed by physicists will see the world's most powerful laser being constructed.
Capable of producing a beam of light so intense that it would be equivalent to the power received by the Earth from the sun focused onto a speck smaller than a tip of a pin, scientists claim it could allow them boil the very fabric of space – the vacuum.
Contrary to popular belief, a vacuum is not devoid of material but in fact fizzles with tiny mysterious particles that pop in and out of existence, but at speeds so fast that no one has been able to prove they exist.
The Extreme Light Infrastructure Ultra-High Field Facility would produce a laser so intense that scientists say it would allow them to reveal these particles for the first time by pulling this vacuum "fabric" apart.
They also believe it could even allow them to prove whether extra-dimensions exist.
"This laser will be 200 times more powerful than the most powerful lasers that currently exist," said Professor John Collier, a scientific leader for the ELI project and director of the Central Laser Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, Oxfordshire.
"At this kind of intensity we start to get into unexplored territory as it is an area of physics that we have never been before."
The ELI Ultra-High Field laser is due to be complete by the end of the decade and will cost an estimated £1 billion.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
You have to love those scientific theories that predict you won't find any evidence to support them.
Maybe get a do-over of the Big Bang? :-)
Amazing...what passes for a ‘science correspondent’ these days, that is.
I've been waiting for over three decades now...
More powerful than the gamma ray blast produced by the collapse of a super giant star?
More powerful than the gamma ray blast produced by the collapse of a super giant star?
Medieval starts up again Saturday on BBCA.
Also great for playing with cats, giving powerpoint presentations, and annoying your English teacher.
I secretly hope they use it to blast ET back into their own dimension. They ran out of lube during the last anal probe, and if it takes me the rest of my life, I’ll see those Tall Greys fry.
LOL!
Note: this topic is from 11/1/2011.Thanks SeekAndFind.
Well, if you want to make a TARDIS you have to break a few eggs, er, break a few ... you have to break spacetime somewhere.
I ALWAYS wanted a TARDIS! :-)
I have one in my master bedroom ... but then I’m getting so old that, like a goose, I wake up to a new world every morning and say ‘Thank you, Lord, for another day.’
Are you a Time Lord (Lady?)?
I’m just a civilian, so i was never issued one.
Aim it at Mecca and be the heroes of Earth.
Though the math in this respect is pretty good.
A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space could be built in Britain ... the world's most powerful laser being constructed. ... Capable of producing a beam of light so intense that .... a speck smaller than a tip of a pin, ... it could allow them boil the very fabric of space...Uh ... maybe it's just me, but that doesn't sound like a very good idea.
free tip for you brainiacs:
Baby steps guys. Baby steps. First try doing something useful like turning base metals into Gold. Or even better, make some Gizmo (Tech Term) that would turn all liberals into stone. Or, pillars of salt :-)
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