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The Skeptics Guide #871 - Mar 19 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Exawat Class Lazers

Exawat class laziers could be used to create intense beams of lazer light with intensities up to ten to the eighteenth watch per cubic centimeter. Some scientists think that you could use them to literally tear electrons and positons from empty space, a phenomenon that they call breaking the vacuum. Younow, you could use it to discern things that that happen at high energies but extremely brief.

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