In this article from NewScientist, we learn about a new possibility in the laser field, a gamma-ray laser. All you have to do is to (somehow) have “an electron hook up with its antiparticle, the positron, to form positronium” and then have the “positronium atoms merge into a kind-of a ‘super-atom’ condensate” which could then lead to “gamma-ray lasers a million times more powerful than standard lasers”.
No problem…
I fully expect to see at least two of these in next year’s Space Elevator games 🙂
(Picture from here – click on it for a larger version)
Damn, you’ve uncovered our secret plans for this year! Please step in front of this aperture right here for one second…
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gamma laser beams are much easier to create than that. try crossing a regular laser beam with a stream of rapidly moving electrons. the photons will “sling-shot” around the electrons creating a 3rd beam of pure, collimated gamma energy with the same characteristics of the original laser beam. now, what are you going to collect it with? a can of black paint?