Laser Beams Deflected Off of Nothing but Air for First Time Ever in Breakthrough Patent Pending Process - The Debrief::An international team of scientists report that they have successfully used acoustics to deflect laser beams in an engineering first.
Hard light dildos let’s fucking goooo
Light saber what?
“Blow me” about to have a whole new meaning.
Light sabers?
Yelling lightsabers at that loudness. All the better imho.
Fun fact, if sound travelled through space, the sun would be as loud as a jackhammer everywhere on earth. Second fun fact, due to the fact that we evolved on earth you wouldve evolved to not be able to hear that frequency.
Luke!
WHAT?
LUKE! I AM YOUR…
WHAAAT? TURN YOUR LIGHTSABER OFF IF YOU GOT SOMETHING TO SAY
HELL NO YOU TURN OFF YOUR LIGHTSABER BOY
Horseshit. Don’t piss on my head and tell me it’s raining.
Edit: this is more horseshit like the “room temperature superconductor” that was instantly debunked as a horseshit scheme recently.
Sound pressure waves cannot distort spacetime
Space battles would be so much cooler if every now and then the phaser gets split around the ship instead of hitting the shields.
Would also work even when shields are down.
But that needs air. There’s no air in space.
There’s an Air and Space Museum
Doesn’t need to be air “in space”, there just needs to be air somewhere between the laser weapon and whatever it is you don’t want the weapon to destroy…
… although it’d probably be easier to use a mirror. Maybe one pointing directly at the person holding a laser weapon. ;-)
Corner reflector. Send it back where it came from, without knowing where they are ahead of time.
Damn… you’re right.
Maybe they’ll find another way now that they’ve found one.
A mirror? Light won’t reflect off of nothing. The closest you’ll get is gravitational lensing, but that requires about a galaxy’s worth of mass to make any noticeable difference.
I mean, that’s a 20GW laser, what about those handheld lasers? Would you still need 140db?
It would happen regardless of the power of the laser, but it would likely be undetectable at significantly lower power.
That’s just an AOM
Art of Manliness?
Doesn’t an AOM typically have a lens?
No, it’s just a crystal and a piezo. You can focus into the AOM to get lower rise times but it works without any lenses.
I think I should have said “optic” in place of “lens”. The crystal is the portion that is being oscillated to divert the beam. It could be that this is exactly the same principle being used by the referenced experiment but with much higher powered acoustic equipment.
Yeah, they’re using air instead of a crystal :D
Age Of Mempires?
Why not a BOM?
Why not a BM?
Buero of Meteorology?
Just an AOM, but counting upwards.
Green laser beams have been deflecting off nothing but air since we invented green lasers. That’s why they are visible without adding smoke.
