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Bendy laser beams fired through the air
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T.K. RandallApril 13, 2009 ·
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Physicists at the University of Arizona have developed a method for creating curved laser beams, a technology that could one day be used for example to bend lightning around tall buildings or away from power plants.
The Norse thunder god Thor deflected lightning with his hammer. Physicists could soon replicate this feat using curved laser beams. Bending lightning around tall buildings and away from airports, power plants and other facilities is just one application for curved laser beams, says Jerome Moloney at the University of Arizona, Tuscon. He and his colleagues have now made the first such beams."
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Nature.com |
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