Physicists Planning Laser To Tear Holes in Space
- First Posted: Oct 31 2011 08:40 AM
- Updated: about 4 hours ago
This decade's follow-up to the CERN particle accelerator could be the world's most powerful laser.
Physicists are hoping that the massive-science-project-du-decade will be their proposal to construct a $1-billion megalaser that's capable of tearing a hole through the fabric of space. This will surely end well for all of humanity. The project, dubbed Extreme Light Infrastructure Ultra-High Field Facility, would construct a laser that would be as powerful as all the sun's rays that make it to Earth but condensed into a field no wider than the tip of a pen. Once fired, the 200-petawatt laser, which would fire bursts of energy more powerful than all the world's electricity production, will literally tear wholes into the vaccuum that is space, which the team believes will split apart the tiny particles of matter and antimatter that make up space. Once those particles are split, physicists believe we'll be able to understand just what dark matter is, and, potentially, whether or not there are other dimensions of existence. For real. Read the article then come back and comment. Anyhow, three prototype lasers are already being built for use in eastern Europe while various European governments jockey over which country will get to host the ELI Ultra High-Field laser. Our money's on the whole project going rogue and ending up something like Moonraker.
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