Secret weapon revealed for 2008 Space Elevator Games

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 🙂

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2 thoughts on “Secret weapon revealed for 2008 Space Elevator Games

  1. vincent lopresti

    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?

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