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Physicists Have Created the Brightest Light Ever Recorded (vice.com)
Jason Koebler writes: A group of physicists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Extreme Light Laboratory announced Monday that they have created the brightest light ever produced on Earth using Diocles, one of the most powerful lasers in the United States. When this high intensity laser pulse, which is one billion times brighter than the surface of the sun, strikes the electron, it causes it to behave differently. By firing this laser at individual electrons, the researchers found that past a certain threshold, the brightness of light will actually change an object's appearance rather than simply making it brighter. The x-rays that are produced in this fashion have an extremely high amount of energy, and Umstadter and his colleagues think this could end up being applied in a number of ways. For starters, it could allow doctors to produce x-ray medical images on the nanoscale, which would allow them to detect tumors and other anomalies that regular x-rays might have missed. Moreover, it could also be used for more sophisticated x-ray scanning at airports and other security checkpoints.
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it could allow doctors to produce x-ray medical images on the nanoscale
However, researchers are still trying to overcome the slight technical difficulty of the patient being vaporized in the process.
I seem to remember something about this kind of thing about 8 years or so ago, where the schwinger limit was postulated to be unreachable due to self-interactions of the beam...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1007.430...
and that due to these self-interactions, there was a theoretical fixed limit to photon flux in vacuum before the limit that would cause vacuum decay.
Did this work somehow exceed that prior work?
So your complaints are that they are profitable and pay for all services rendered by the University (including scholarships for their athletes), but they are raising outside funds for a new stadium at zero cost to the University (in actuality, it will be a financial win for the University as it will receive even more payments and enhanced sales tax revenue which goes to fund higher education). Got it. It's the "optics" that matter, not the actual actions.
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Pretty sure the blue LED on the front of my stereo is brighter.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
How does this laser compare to some of the brightest objects in the universe, such as gamma ray bursts and quasars?
Physicists Have Created the Brightest Light Ever Recorded
Will be for BMW headlights. They seem to like to fit blindingly bright headlights. Yes it's great if it helps the BMW driver see but not so good if the drivers coming the other way can't see anything.
One of two things happens.
1) the flesh between the imager and the molecules a few microns deep in the tissue will distort the wavefront rendering it non-bright (i.e. focusable) or
2) you jack up the power to compensate for the lost bightness and varporize the flesh.
Already, non-high brightness laser imaging of breast tissues and such are at the flesh burn limit so you can't actually use a more powerful laser. And there's no practical way to prevent the distortion from occuring.
Ergo the claim is rubbish.
You could still use it to look at surfaces of biopsies. But you don't need higher brightness to see indiviidual cells for that.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
However, researchers are still trying to overcome the slight technical difficulty of the patient being vaporized in the process.
That's why it will make an excellent airport security detector. It's guaranteed not to let any bomb or potential terrorist get past it.