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Locutus

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World's most powerful laser to tear apart the vacuum of space





Oh yes, sounds like an excellent idea. :lol:


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.





World's most powerful laser to tear apart the vacuum of space - Telegraph
 

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I thought that back in the 80s they figured if a laser were fired from outer space at the Earth, the atmosphere would catch fire and incinerate all life on the planet. Sounds like these guys spend way too many sleepless nights.