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Message #13198
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Timothy Flytch" beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 16:15:20 PDT
Subject: Re: Wacky ideas floating around
Ok Dave,
What I was thinking about was the old ruby lasers... you take a ruby and
grind it into a kinda double ended bullet shape with a whole running have
way down the center axes... This is then surrounded by a light ... when the
light is switched of the light builds and then is released in one coherent
beam out of the hole... as long as the supply light is on, the lite is
"stored up" in the ruby...
This is kinda splitting hares but just had to get nit picky... Just for the
fun of being nit picky...
Timothy...
>At 12:35 AM 4/8/00 , Timothy Flytch wrote:
>>>From: "Mike Kulesza"
>>>You
>>>simply cannnot contain light!!!
>>
>>Sorry to nit pick but yes you can contain light... laser
>>technology... Just not in a simple "glass cube"... Sorry just had to
>>speak up...
>
>Wouldn't that be _generating_ light? Or do you mean laser/fibre optics?
>Because they also disperse light energy too...
>
>-Dave
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>"Um, no - that's H,R,Y,N,K,I,W. No, not K,I,U,U, K,I,_W_. Yes,
>that's right. Yes, I know it looks like "HOCKYRINK." Yup, only
> 2 vowels. Pronounciation? _SMITH_".
> http://www.solarbotics.com
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