Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the temperature alone from something 10 billion times the sun be ridiculously high? I'm talking Apocalyptic/Doom's-Day fires here.
Totally my thought too. Unless they're using something along the lines of a cluster of LED based devices.... well, I dunno. But should that get hot too? I mean, "ten-billion times brighter than the sun". My skin burns just thinking about that.
The temperature would be high, but not apocalyptic. Keep in mind that the machine isn't producing 10^9 times the total light of the Sun. Instead, it is producing 10^9 times the lux (lumens/m^2) of the Sun - a significantly smaller amount of light. Taken with the fact that the beam produced seems to be 2.74 nm x 0.0274 nm (http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Technology/MachineParameters - 23.59 fm^2 if I'm not mistaken), the light itself is really not too bright. I'm still somewhat confused how they manage to keep the paper from igniting under those extreme conditions... (http://www.solardeathray.com/)
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the temperature alone from something 10 billion times the sun be ridiculously high? I'm talking Apocalyptic/Doom's-Day fires here.
Totally my thought too. Unless they're using something along the lines of a cluster of LED based devices.... well, I dunno. But should that get hot too? I mean, "ten-billion times brighter than the sun". My skin burns just thinking about that.
The temperature would be high, but not apocalyptic. Keep in mind that the machine isn't producing 10^9 times the total light of the Sun. Instead, it is producing 10^9 times the lux (lumens/m^2) of the Sun - a significantly smaller amount of light. Taken with the fact that the beam produced seems to be 2.74 nm x 0.0274 nm (http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Technology/MachineParameters - 23.59 fm^2 if I'm not mistaken), the light itself is really not too bright. I'm still somewhat confused how they manage to keep the paper from igniting under those extreme conditions... (http://www.solardeathray.com/)