02-02-2010, 04:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-02-2010, 04:01 PM by AnthroHeart.)
As one who studied lasers for over 4 years in college, I can attest to the brilliance of even a 1-Watt coherent source (such as an Argon laser) which could burn paper. 40-Watt light-show lasers are so intense that it hurts to look at the beam.
We have industrial lasers with Tera-Watts of peak power that are used for fusing atoms. Lasers as big as a city block producing an intense UV pulse in the picosecond range. Even with that, we are still under the physics of our own dimension, so I cannot imaging the brilliance possible in 4D.
There is a term called diffraction limited that determins how small you can focus a beam of light to. It relates to the wavelenght of that light. Perhaps in higher densities, this diffraction limited will be ever smaller.
We have industrial lasers with Tera-Watts of peak power that are used for fusing atoms. Lasers as big as a city block producing an intense UV pulse in the picosecond range. Even with that, we are still under the physics of our own dimension, so I cannot imaging the brilliance possible in 4D.
There is a term called diffraction limited that determins how small you can focus a beam of light to. It relates to the wavelenght of that light. Perhaps in higher densities, this diffraction limited will be ever smaller.