ReconRat Posted January 26, 2012 Report Share Posted January 26, 2012 Since I like weird science... Wait, what? They said what?amplified the laser light 200 million timesa billion to 10 billion times brighter than any previous x-ray source2-million-degree Celsius on a target (3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit — hotter than the sun’s corona)required input of 200 billion megawatts for a few millionths of a nanosecondsimilar to attempts in the 1980s to build ultrahigh-power x-ray lasers to shoot down nuclear missilesroughly the power output of a small countrysounds like a weapon of the future, but it's really meant to be an x-ray microscope of matter at the atomic and sub atomic level.But it's possible weapons like this already exist.http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/01/physicists-squeeze-x-ray-laser-l.html?ref=hphttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/laser-3-million-degrees/Stanford Press Releasehttps://news.slac.stanford.edu/press-release/scientists-create-first-atomic-x-ray-laser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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