It'd be impressive if they fire it at like half the speed of light
I mean, any other non-c speed really.
I would be especially interested in speeds larger than c 🙂
just shine a laser through a thing of zircon (n=index of refraction=1.923~2)
so speed of the laser in the zircon = c/n ~c/2
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I have wifi router that emits microwaves at the speed of light.
Pffft, I have a microwave that emits microwaves at microwave speeds to microwave things.
Impressive. The future is awesome! Can we maybe apply this to regular light too? Maybe even green light? Or purple? I'm so excited.
When you go from green to purple, the light gets more excited too.
Well, for the green light we already have FTL tech, it was invented and perfected by the car behind you as you are waiting for the light to turn green.
According to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, the same people also write about politics, environment and society.
That sounds neat, I won't look it up
Yeah, they probably have it all figured out.
It was coined by Michael Crichton, you know, the man behind the Jurassic Park. Big Dino man can't lie. And if they lie they are instantly forgiven.
I would hope so
I'd be more impressed if they didn't.
Is there a way to not?
The medium that the laser goes through could slow it down, but it would still be insanely fast.
It would also still be the speed of light. Always is, unless you specify ‘in a vacuum’ every time.
Adding to the fun - The light is still going the same speed within the medium, but it's bumping into more things. Those collisions divert the light, lengthening the distance it travels through something like 1 cm of glass vs 1 cm in a vacuum. It changes the time it takes to travel through glass rather than the speed at which the light is moving.
At least that's what I remember from a YouTube video.
Wait until they see the speaker that makes noise at the speed of sound.
Honestly I'd be more impressed by the Star Wars kind that go about thirty miles an hour.
Those aren't lasers. They're contained plasma projectiles.
Meanwhile, this headline goes at the speed of clicks:-).
This picture got so much compression artifacts just in 3 days lol.
What has science done?!
Has Science Really Gone Too Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?
Have you not seen those Blaster from the galaxy far far away that fire laser half the speed of sound?
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I can run at the speed of running, where is my headline?
I think they've changed the headline, but not the embedded video:
I mean, the video one makes a little more sense, as it's about destroying things at the speed of light rather than just firing the laser.
I can run at the speed of fat
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