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Re: Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun

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benj <none@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/16/2015 07:58 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> reber g=emc^2 <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 5:46:05 PM UTC-8, ji...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>>> Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun
>>>>>> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-lasers-rapidly-materials-hotter-sun.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Lasers could heat materials to temperatures hotter than the centre of
>>>>>> the Sun in only 20 quadrillionths of a second, according to new
>>>>>> research.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Theoretical physicists from Imperial College London have devised an
>>>>>> extremely rapid heating mechanism that they believe could heat
>>>>>> certain materials to ten million degrees in much less than a million
>>>>>> millionth of a second.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The method, proposed here for the first time, could be relevant to
>>>>>> new avenues of research in thermonuclear fusion energy, where
>>>>>> scientists are seeking to replicate the Sun's ability to produce
>>>>>> clean energy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The heating would be about 100 times faster than rates currently seen
>>>>>> in fusion experiments using the world's most energetic laser system
>>>>>> at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The race
>>>>>> is now on for fellow scientists to put the team's method into
>>>>>> practice.
>>>>
>>>> Sure they could, all it takes is power.
>>>>
>>>> About 40 years ago or so the hot thing was to blow up wires with huge
>>>> currents, today it seems to be to blow up random stuff with lasers.
>>>>
>>>> Blowing things up is always cool.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jim Pennino
>>>
>>> Laser for a second can create high temp,but not that much heat.The sun does both for over 10 billion years.A spark has high temp,but very little heat.Get the picture? There is a difference.TreBert
>>
>> My first job out of college invloved cutting lasers; I am well aware
>> of how such work.
> 
> A laser pulse "only 20 quadrillionths of a second" long (according to 
> asshats' media morons) isn't going to do much cutting, jimp. Of course 
> blowing things up with lasers is always cool, but you aren't going to 
> blow much up with pulses this short.
 
The ass hat's cut and paste was as usual just speulative arm waving. 
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 11:16 -0600
  Re: Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 10:24 -0800
    Re: Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 18:39 -0600
  Re: Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-14 01:31 +0000
    Re: Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 16:31 -0800
      Re: Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-17 00:58 +0000
        Re: Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 22:04 -0500
          Re: Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-17 03:40 +0000
  Re: Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 21:22 -0500
  Re: Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 14:40 -0800

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