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[ECrownofFire]

Here and here.

200 fucking petawatts. 100,000 times the entire world's electricity output.

SCIENCE!

[Aqizzar]

Why?  Why would you build this thing?  How are you even going to use it, when it requires more electricity to run than the whole planet produces?

Why would your example of how the laser works look exactly like the Death Star beam?  Who do you think you're fooling, science?  We've been here before, we know your tricks.

[Necro910]

It's not just a light, it's a laser. Maybe you have used one of those laser pointers at your meeting. No, that's nothing. Oh? What's that? Did you just mention the anti-missile lasers that can make metal burst into flame? That? Nothing, that's pathetic. This is a giant death laser. Can it blow up the moon? BITCH, PLEASE. It can destroy THE FABRIC OF SPACE AND TIME. Yeah, fuck you and your FUCKING VACUUMS! WE JUST BLEW IT UP!

[TheBronzePickle]

The idea is obviously to rip space-time so we can ask the future a question.

[Neonivek]

Why?  Why would you build this thing?  How are you even going to use it, when it requires more electricity to run than the whole planet produces?

Why would your example of how the laser works look exactly like the Death Star beam?  Who do you think you're fooling, science?  We've been here before, we know your tricks.

Specifically Science is starting to slow down and thus the methods of experiementation gets more desperate.

[Criptfeind]

The idea is obviously to rip space-time so we can ask the future a question.

Specifically, that question will be how to close the horror rift.

[ECrownofFire]

Why?  Why would you build this thing?  How are you even going to use it, when it requires more electricity to run than the whole planet produces?

Why would your example of how the laser works look exactly like the Death Star beam?  Who do you think you're fooling, science?  We've been here before, we know your tricks.

They plan to build up the electricity over time or something. The thing only fires for a trillionth of a second.

As for the why?

SCIENCE!

[Lectorog]

Science:
"We do what we must, because we can."

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The Ultra-High Field laser will be made up of 10 beams, each twice as powerful as the prototype lasers, allowing it to produce 200 petawatts of power – more than 100,000 times the power of the world's combined electricity production – for less than a trillionth of a second.

The huge amounts of energy needed to produce a laser beam of this strength is stored up over time before it is fired to produce large laser beams several feet wide that are then combined and focused down onto a tiny spot, much like sunlight through a magnifying glass.

At the focal point, the intensity of the light will produce conditions that are so extreme they do not exist even in the centre of our sun.

It will cause the mysterious particles of matter and antimatter thought to make up a vacuum to be pulled apart, allowing scientists to detect the tiny electrical charges they produce.

They need to keep building increasingly ridiculous things, to create increasingly rediculous theories, and try to understand increasingly ridiculous phenomena. Scientists are almost as crazy as the universe.

I also do not believe this will actually work how they want it to. Kind of silly, all considered.

[Criptfeind]

Now. According to the best physics professor of all (Marvel Comics) won't this set the air on fire and burn away all of earths atmosphere or something?

[612DwarfAvenue]

!!SCIENCE!!

But jesus christ, between this and CERN going faster than light, chances are the Universe is gonna go "fuck you" and collapse.

[Aqizzar]

Wait, I have a better idea.

...a giant laser that can emit a beam with an amount of energy equivalent to all of the power the Earth receives from the sun combined...

Solution: Build a magnifying glass the size of the Earth.  Bam, laser.

[612DwarfAvenue]

Wait, I have a better idea.

...a giant laser that can emit a beam with an amount of energy equivalent to all of the power the Earth receives from the sun combined...

Solution: Build a magnifying glass the size of the Earth.  Bam, laser.

Ahhh, troll physics.

[Criptfeind]

The issue with that is what will happen when a kid with reallllllly big hands get bored.

[Necro910]

!!SCIENCE!!

But jesus christ, between this and CERN going faster than light, chances are the Universe is gonna go "fuck you" and collapse.

I believe destroying space itself would qualify. 

[nenjin]

It's like throwing a rock into a pool to watch the ripples. Except, you know, this time the pool is the universe.