Laser tears through 100 balloons

[hab...@anony.net]

Moron Jyotish do put a comment at the top , to show that you
have read the article.
One would have thought that the laser would move instatenously
popping all of them at the same time, so why is there a delayed effect
unless it is a fake? Or is it that light is slowed down with each
balloon?

http://m.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-05/watch-laser-tear-through-100-balloons-one-shot

[Martin Brown]

The balloons are black and the laser short wavelength so that it is
blocked by the opacity of the balloon until it is popped and out of the
way. A near IR CO2 laser would go through them all in one go.

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Regards,
Martin Brown

[benj]

But if the balloons were transparent the light wouldn't pop them. Just
tell Habshi that the light is slowed by the balloons he won't know
better! G=EMC^2 has actually STOPPED light just inches from it's source.
Oh ya!

[ji...@specsol.spam.sux.com]

My god are you dumb.

Each balloon in turn shadows the balloon behind it until it pops.

If you want them to pop faster, use a higher powered laser.

It never be instantaneous. The upper limit is close to the speed of light
if the laser is powerfull enough, but no matter how powerfull the laser,
there will still be some finite time for the balloon material to "go away".

You are still an idiot.


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Jim Pennino

[Martin Brown]

On 02/05/2013 18:20, benj wrote:
> On Thu, 02 May 2013 10:51:50 +0100, Martin Brown wrote:
>
>> On 02/05/2013 10:31, hab...@anony.net wrote:
>>> Moron Jyotish do put a comment at the top , to show that you
>>> have read the article.
>>> One would have thought that the laser would move instatenously
>>> popping all of them at the same time, so why is there a delayed effect
>>> unless it is a fake? Or is it that light is slowed down with each
>>> balloon?
>>>
>>> http://m.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-05/watch-laser-tear-
> through-100-balloons-one-shot
>>
>> The balloons are black and the laser short wavelength so that it is
>> blocked by the opacity of the balloon until it is popped and out of the
>> way. A near IR CO2 laser would go through them all in one go.
>
> But if the balloons were transparent the light wouldn't pop them. Just

Prof George Porter did that for a Royal Institution Xmas lecture he gave
in the early 1970's. I don't know if the original video survives.

He did pioneering fast laser studies of obscure reactions of CFCs and
was awarded the Nobel prize in 1967 that ultimately turned out to be the
smoking gun mechanism for ozone depletion. He was studying them in
detail more because they were interesting and matched the capabilities
of the ultra-fast (for then) laser kit that he had available.

> tell Habshi that the light is slowed by the balloons he won't know
> better! G=EMC^2 has actually STOPPED light just inches from it's source.
> Oh ya!

You can tell the average raving loon anything and they will believe it.

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Regards,
Martin Brown

[hab...@anony.net]

What is surprising is that you can see the blue laser all the
way to the last balloon , a leisurely progress. What I expected was to
see one flash and then just the balloons popping away.

[ji...@specsol.spam.sux.com]

Yes, ignorant babbling idiots are frequently surprised by the real world,
which seldom behaves as they expect.




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Jim Pennino