For all the heady talk of misleading "deific" recently confirmed the name of Scottish physicist of quantum dots, other types of historic events have occurred: the laser beam to destroy records that, in a single shot was fired on July 5, 2012, which produced more power than the United States does in a single instant.
Spooky or amazing? How do both. Think of it as "extreme sports science," a kind of automated laboratory-based one-upmanship game where researchers fiddle with very complex, laborious machine is calibrated to produce a result that has never happened before - then beat them.
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That's the National Ignition Facility - home to the largest laser in the world - only do when it pulls the trigger on amplified optical beam 192, the light emitting electromagnetic radiation, all fired within a few trillionths seconds of each other, to provide 500 trillion watts (or terawatts) of "peak power "and 1.85 megajoules of ultraviolet laser light.
Framed in a more eye-catching terms: NIF says 500 terawatts to power the entire U.S. outpaces that used "at any given instant in time," and that the 1.85 megajoules numbering about 100 times what every other laser produces a regular basis. No wonder both the power unit prefixes (tera, mega) derived from the Greek word meaning "monster" and "large."
Then again, what else would you expect from a laser is housed in a building the size of three football fields, or a laboratory science with words such as "ignition" in his moniker?
NIF, which is located in Livermore, California, came online in March 2009, and its purpose are manifold: the mis
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