Welcome to the future: 200PW laser facility proposed

[G36E]

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.
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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.
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"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."
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The European Commission has already this year approved plans to build three other lasers that will form part of the ELI project and will be prototypes for the Ultra-High Field laser.

Due to sited in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, each laser will coast around £200 million and are scheduled to become operational in 2015.

The Ultra-High Field laser will be made up of 10 beams, each twice as powerful as the prototype lasers, allowing it to produce 200 petawatts of power – more than 100,000 times the power of the world's combined electricity production – for less than a trillionth of a second.

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So... Does this seem familiar somehow?

 

[FrisianDude]

They should build it on the moon to use against extra-terrestrial dinosaur invaders.

 

[K-64]

But finding the people to take care of it might be a bit awkward. I don't think Dracula does requests like that

 

[BattleOfValmy]

Yay, more doom, world-ending advanced scientific programs that are sure to end in nothing not nearly so dramatic or exciting for those not actually interested in science.

 

[Arzeal]

Yes, I love it! Building big-ass laser to shoot stuffs up and claim founding new dimension  !

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Relax, guys.
Pretty sure this thing won't be exactly easy to aim.
Though, I guess it's gonna suck to live on Mars in a few years.

 

[Tuckles]

They should build it on the moon to use against extra-terrestrial dinosaur invaders.

Dr. McNinja reference! >:U

 

[SwadianCommander]

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So... Does this seem familiar somehow?

 

[Mage246]

That's no Moon... Or at least it won't be once we fire that laser at it. No more shall the Earth live in fear of the Nazis living on the Dark Side!

 

[Ambalon]

They should get ten of thos super-lasers and make an even stronger one. And aim it at the sun. And see what happens.

 

[AWdeV]

隐藏

****en sweet.

 

[TrinityArse]

star wars nerd

 

[Elisianthus]

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

 

[Quixote]

:~{

 

[rebelknight]

 

[Cookie Eating Huskarl]

8====)--~~

 

[Chechen!]

8=) -

FTFY.

 

[Tuckles]

lolasianjoke

 

[Tibertus]

As already proposed, let's put the laser on the moon. However, we'll also put giant rocket thrusters on the moon as well. That way we can maneuver it and aim the laser. Finally, let's build sustainable biodomes on the moon an inhabit with super soldiers and take over the galaxy.

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