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Re: A LASER that can rip a hole in space and time???
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Irkin Invader Zim
Nov 2, 2012, 9:16:06 PM11/2/12
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On Nov 2, 8:02 pm, " Sir Gregory Hall, Esq." <gregh...@home.f ke>
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> Duh! Talk about dweeb speak? Anybody who knew anything about physics would say
> "a LASER that can rip a hole in "spacetime."
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> --
> Sir Gregory
> Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
There is no laser that can rip a hole in space time
only the U.S.S. Enterprise can do that
wrote:
> Duh! Talk about dweeb speak? Anybody who knew anything about physics would say
> "a LASER that can rip a hole in "spacetime."
>
> --
> Sir Gregory
> Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
There is no laser that can rip a hole in space time
only the U.S.S. Enterprise can do that
pandora
Nov 2, 2012, 10:02:21 PM11/2/12
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:-)
Sir Gregory Hall, Esq.
Nov 3, 2012, 12:19:53 PM11/3/12
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"pandora" <pan...@peak.org> wrote in message
news:XK6dnTBz5oCw5gnN...@scnresearch.com...
WRONG! The Enterprise had no weaponized lasers aboard. They used phasers.
From Wiki:
Originally (from the production notes to TOS), the Phaser was a PHoton mASER,
since at the time of writing the Laser was a relative unknown, and powers were
not expected to be very great. Masers, on the other hand, were already very
powerful machines which produce very destructive radiation pulses. The term
"phaser" has since been revised as a backronym for PHASed Energy
Rectification, though from a physics standpoint even this is of equal semantic
content-ordinary incoherent light is not "rectified", or synchronous, whereas
Lasing and Masing emissions are rectified, or synchronous. Phasers release a
beam of fictional subatomic particles called "rapid nadions", which are then
refracted ('rectified') through superconducting crystals. Given the nature of
photons the first acronym seems more accurate. The Star Trek: The Next
Generation Technical Manual indicates that the superconducting crystals used
in phasers are called fushigi no umi (Japanese for "sea of mystery", ?????)
This was an homage to the 1990 anime series Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, known in
North America as Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. The phasers that appeared in
the 2009 reboot Star Trek appear similar to classic phasers, but fire 'bolts'
of energy instead of sustained beams, and seem to only have two settings, stun
and kill. The barrel of the weapon is two-sided, and the user must literally
rotate to a different output in order to use a different setting. It is not
known whether or not that type of phaser has adjustable power output. A
similar change was seen in the starship-mounted phaser banks, which also fire
bolts instead of beams.
--
Sir Gregory
news:XK6dnTBz5oCw5gnN...@scnresearch.com...
From Wiki:
Originally (from the production notes to TOS), the Phaser was a PHoton mASER,
since at the time of writing the Laser was a relative unknown, and powers were
not expected to be very great. Masers, on the other hand, were already very
powerful machines which produce very destructive radiation pulses. The term
"phaser" has since been revised as a backronym for PHASed Energy
Rectification, though from a physics standpoint even this is of equal semantic
content-ordinary incoherent light is not "rectified", or synchronous, whereas
Lasing and Masing emissions are rectified, or synchronous. Phasers release a
beam of fictional subatomic particles called "rapid nadions", which are then
refracted ('rectified') through superconducting crystals. Given the nature of
photons the first acronym seems more accurate. The Star Trek: The Next
Generation Technical Manual indicates that the superconducting crystals used
in phasers are called fushigi no umi (Japanese for "sea of mystery", ?????)
This was an homage to the 1990 anime series Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, known in
North America as Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. The phasers that appeared in
the 2009 reboot Star Trek appear similar to classic phasers, but fire 'bolts'
of energy instead of sustained beams, and seem to only have two settings, stun
and kill. The barrel of the weapon is two-sided, and the user must literally
rotate to a different output in order to use a different setting. It is not
known whether or not that type of phaser has adjustable power output. A
similar change was seen in the starship-mounted phaser banks, which also fire
bolts instead of beams.
--
Sir Gregory
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