A Lab in Wuhan is Experimenting With Something Airborne that Could Spread All Over the World, Affecting Millions if Not Properly Contained

[Symmachus]

Chinese scientists invent laser so powerful it can scar the air​

Researchers in China have invented a high-powered laser capable of essentially scorching the air to create patterns.

The Wuhan-based team demonstrated the laser by drawing Chinese characters in the air, which can be viewed from any angle and can be physically touched.


It works by stripping the electrons off air molecules using ultra-short laser pulses and turning them into light. The researchers hope the technology can be implemented in various fields, ranging from brain imaging, to quantum computing.


“With the brand new device, we can draw in the air without using paper and ink,” Cao Xiangdong, lead scientist at the Hongtuo Laboratory of Ultra-Fast Laser in Wuhan’s optics valley, told Science and Technology Daily, as reported by the South China Morning Post.

“The display is an accumulation of our research over more than a decade.”

The displays are created using pulses that last for just a few femtoseconds, which is equivalent to one quadrillionth, or one millionth of one billionth, of a second, but they require a million megawatts of power to be shot out.

In order to turn the air into light, the energy density required is roughly a trillion watts per square centimetre.

Wuhan scientists unveil laser so powerful it can scar the air

Technology could be used in everything from brain imaging to quantum computing

www.independent.co.uk

So... who is down for some lasers from Wuhan?

Also, what were you thinking this thread was going to be about, a pandemic? Pshaw! That could never happen in our lifetimes. Never.

"And speaking of things that will definitely never happen because it is so unlikely, I'm sure that iceberg up ahead is nothing to worry about. Our ship is far away enough that we don't really need to steer away from it. God himself could never sink this ship! Or at least he wouldn't let it happen. Like, we're all decent people here, or at least most of us. Except for the ones who are always complaining about every little thing. They don't seem to work together very well, and do not respect the fact that I am the captain. There's a bunch of quabbling in our ranks, and I'm going to hold a grand meeting to- CRAP! ICEBERG STRAIGHT AHEAD!"

 

[Metalfan]

If I'm not mistaken masks and hand sanitizer stop the spread of lasers!

 

[Sejanus]

That's right screw with the one thing we all need to sustain life...air.
What could possibly happen?
SMDH.

 

[Blizzard]

no, no, i don't want anything weird, strange, or uncommonly innovative to be coming out of Wuhan, China for a long time TYVM