Comments on: X-ray laser produces temperatures hotter than the sun’s corona

By: Master Bates

Master Bates — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:54:00 +0000

I looked up the surface temperature of the sun and it’s roughly 5800 Kelvin. While the Corona ranges between 1 000 000 and 3 000 000 Kelvin. I wonder how long it would take to leave a hot pocket in that situation, till it would burn the roof of your mouth? Honestly guys, what’s more important; not burning the roof of your mouth when eating food from the microwave or making a Star Wars laser weapon system the average person is never going to get a chance to play with?

Laser weapons and fusion reactors are nice and all. But one of the big issues is having appropriately designed capacitors to deal with these systems. There is current technology which with a slight modification would fill this need. I’ve just never read anything being done in this direction.

Give me a decent 10MW laser system for ships.

By: Master Bates

Master Bates — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:54:00 +0000

Give me a decent 10MW laser system for ships.

By: Master Bates

Master Bates — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:54:00 +0000

Give me a decent 10MW laser system for ships.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:14:00 +0000

I saw “corona” in the title and got thirsty for a beer.

By: ScottT

ScottT — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:36:00 +0000

Now that you can create it, what can a material called hot dense matter be used for?

By: ScottT

ScottT — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:36:00 +0000

Now that you can create it, what can a material called hot dense matter be used for?

By: Caboose

Caboose — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:44:00 +0000

Forget fusion reactor, think of Star Wars!

We can have our own blasters!

By: Caboose

Caboose — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:44:00 +0000

Forget fusion reactor, think of Star Wars!

We can have our own blasters!

By: Paul Mac Eoin

Paul Mac Eoin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:28:00 +0000

When talking about scientific discoveries or inventions it would be proper to use Celsius (or maybe Kevin). Fahrenheit has no place in science.

On the other hand, when you are talking about numbers at big as 3,600,000 F, would it really matter to the average reader if you said 2,000,000 C? Hot either way.

By: Paul Mac Eoin

Paul Mac Eoin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:28:00 +0000

When talking about scientific discoveries or inventions it would be proper to use Celsius (or maybe Kevin). Fahrenheit has no place in science.

On the other hand, when you are talking about numbers at big as 3,600,000 F, would it really matter to the average reader if you said 2,000,000 C? Hot either way.

By: Vishal Gupta

Vishal Gupta — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:12:00 +0000

I hope it helps in achieving a fusions reactor sooner. I had heard there is a team working with lasers to create fusion and I hope the are watching this development.

By: Vishal Gupta

Vishal Gupta — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:12:00 +0000

I hope it helps in achieving a fusions reactor sooner. I had heard there is a team working with lasers to create fusion and I hope the are watching this development.