{"id":736,"date":"2007-09-19T13:09:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T18:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2007-09-19T13:09:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T18:09:56","slug":"secret-weapon-revealed-for-2008-space-elevator-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Secret weapon revealed for 2008 Space Elevator Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/FlashAndMing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"192\" src=\"\/media\/tn_FlashAndMing.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 192px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a>In this <a href=\"http:\/\/technology.newscientist.com\/article\/mg19526216.000-antimatter-molecule-could-lead-to-ultrapowerful-laser.html\">article<\/a> from NewScientist, we learn about a new possibility in the laser field, a gamma-ray laser.\u00a0 All you have to do is to (somehow) have &#8220;an electron hook up with its antiparticle, the positron, to form positronium&#8221; and then have the &#8220;positronium atoms merge into a kind-of a &#8216;super-atom&#8217; condensate&#8221; which could then lead to &#8220;gamma-ray lasers a million times more powerful than standard lasers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>No problem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I fully expect to see at least two of these in next year&#8217;s Space Elevator games \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em>(Picture from <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~cjh5801a\/images\/fg12.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~cjh5801a\/Flash.htm&amp;h=310&amp;w=298&amp;sz=29&amp;hl=en&amp;start=15&amp;um=1&amp;tbnid=kteMywQ2oMK6aM:&amp;tbnh=117&amp;tbnw=112&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dflash%2Bgordon%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DDKUS,DKUS:2006-43,DKUS:en%26sa%3DN\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em> &#8211; click on it for a larger version)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article from NewScientist, we learn about a new possibility in the laser field, a gamma-ray laser.\u00a0 All you have to do is to (somehow) have &#8220;an electron hook up with its antiparticle, the positron, to form positronium&#8221; and then have the &#8220;positronium atoms merge into a kind-of a &#8216;super-atom&#8217; condensate&#8221; which could then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}