Laser Beams Deflected Off of Nothing but Air for First Time Ever in Breakthrough Patent Pending Process - The Debrief::An international team of scientists report that they have successfully used acoustics to deflect laser beams in an engineering first.
Hard light dildos let’s fucking goooo
That’s just an AOM
No, it’s just a crystal and a piezo. You can focus into the AOM to get lower rise times but it works without any lenses.
I think I should have said “optic” in place of “lens”. The crystal is the portion that is being oscillated to divert the beam. It could be that this is exactly the same principle being used by the referenced experiment but with much higher powered acoustic equipment.
Green laser beams have been deflecting off nothing but air since we invented green lasers. That’s why they are visible without adding smoke.
Space battles would be so much cooler if every now and then the phaser gets split around the ship instead of hitting the shields.
Would also work even when shields are down.
Doesn’t need to be air “in space”, there just needs to be air somewhere between the laser weapon and whatever it is you don’t want the weapon to destroy…
… although it’d probably be easier to use a mirror. Maybe one pointing directly at the person holding a laser weapon. ;-)
Damn… you’re right.
Maybe they’ll find another way now that they’ve found one.
Horseshit. Don’t piss on my head and tell me it’s raining.
Edit: this is more horseshit like the “room temperature superconductor” that was instantly debunked as a horseshit scheme recently.
Sound pressure waves cannot distort spacetime
