Tuesday, March 31, 2009

World’s Most Powerful Laser has the Energy of a Hydrogen Bomb

Dude....Consumer Energy Report

Scientists working at the National Ignition Facility of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, have built the most powerful laser in the world, capable of simulating the energy force of a hydrogen bomb and the sun itself.[...]

NIF’s 192 laser beams, housed in a ten-story building the size of three football fields, travel a long path, about 1,000 feet, from their birth at one of the two master oscillators to the center of the target chamber. As the beams move through NIF’s amplifiers, their energy increases exponentially. From beginning to end, the beams’ total energy grows from one-billionth of a joule (a joule is the energy needed to lift a small apple one meter against the Earth’s gravity) to four million joules, a factor of more than a quadrillion - and it all happens in less than 25 billionths of a second.
Anyway we can use this on Pakistan?

1 comment:

#1 infidel said...

Damn they do some crazy stuff with lasers , we would have to rename pakistan , We Shall call it "Popcornistan"