• Question: Will lasers ever get so powerful that it will destroy humans or the world?

    Asked by wentwardroyalchant to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 27 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      It’s possible that you could make a laser big enough to do that, but I doubt that there’s enough energy in the world to make one work, so you’d need some sort of external power source.

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      I doubt it, there are much easier ways to do these things.

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