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Re: Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun

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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.


-- 
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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