I don't want to be that guy, but the worlds governments really need to shut this down.
As if you're not curious what lies below the below, in the darkest depths of irreality?
I am not much impressed by this project. It will just be some energy (200 kJoules = 50 gramm TNT, doesn't sound like militarily significant) that will be concentrated in tiny space. Experiments on laser ignited nuclear fusion already deal with more energy that is less concentrated and LHC - with less energy that has higher concentration.
Not 200kJ, 200PW. Even for only a split second, you still need an incredible amount of voltage. More than the Earth currently has, unless they can ramp up the current like mad.
200PWh in a trillionth of a second is quite a significantly 'split' second. So no, you don't need an enormous amount of voltage, just the ability to deliver it all at the same incredibly tiny timespan to the same place, which in many ways is
much more difficult.
Why does this even need to be researched? Nobody should never invent something capable of fucking up the whole world.
Because it's not capable of fucking up the whole world?
This. The vacuum of space is different from space itself, which would require gravitational distortion to tamper with at all. If you've heard of vacuum energy, this is taking that and pumping a ton of energy into it to make it more visible. Like a really short-lived burst from a guitar amp - the guitar isn't making a lot of noise, it's the energy we're putting through the 'speakers'. Really not that exotic.
C'mon, guys, this is how psuedoscientific fear-mongering gets started, re. LHC fiasco, with people actually trying to ban the thing.
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