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Physics: Mirrors and lasers.
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The enterprise latest class is much much faster so could always run away. It is massively outgunned though A star destroyer crew is 30,000 + so it is a no brainer IMHO. The enterprise might win by cunning and repolarising something with an inverse tachion[spell?] beam if the engines could only take it though.
The actual physics PHHHT neither know nor care
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I am secretly a nobel prize winning bullsh*t artist.
Amen to that, it sounded convincing..
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I made the mistake of googling this. It would seem that about half the internet is dedicated to this debate! Who'd have thunk it!
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Hmmm, maybe I'm thinking too much (or too little) here.
A mirror reflects light.
Laser is light.
If the laser burns the mirror then it was not reflected.
So the mirror was in fact not a mirror.
BUT
Lasers burn things
So if the mirror reflects the laser.
Then the laser wasn't a laser as it didn't burn it.I need to go to the toilet now.
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Mirrors are not perfect tho DrR. That's the thing.
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Mirrors are not 'perfect' nor do all lasers burn things. For a laser to burn a mirror you need a mirror with a relatively low reflectivity and a 3W laser.
For those interested, the problem with 'perfect' mirrors is when you build up the mirror layers the individual layers are put under stress causing curving of the mirror face....as i am finding out at the moment!Posted 1 year ago # -
So I was thinking - can you reflect light with some other kind of field other than a physical sheet of solid?
Perhaps a plasma contained within a flat magnetic field would reflect light?
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But photons have no charge, so how would they bend in an electric field?
EDIT: Oh the optical properties are refractive.. I see... Still vulnerable to vapourisation tho?
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we could build one and find out!
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What mirror for moorland riding?
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Forget the Enterprise vs Star Destroyer nerdfest...
Fight Club!
Sharks with frikkin' lazors (sic) vs Dolphins equipped with seamines
Who would win? And why?
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