Even Superman would be powerless against this...

Inspired by a long break of not writing anything at all, starting internship in laser’s company and appearance of more powerful lasers every day, I decided to present a record achieved few days ago by researchers from Berkley Lab Laser Accelerator called BELLA. This may be useless as with this pace after few days there may appear an article about a new record. And I actually do hope it will happen as this would mean new technological and scientific opportunities. So what have they actually done? They managed to reach one petawatt peak power pulse. It could be compared to the power of million millions of vacuum cleaners or more than 1000 times the power used by United States at any instant time. Why do they use such a huge power for nothing? Where do they get all this energy from? Actually this laser is very short pulsed. Time of the pulse is only 40 femtoseconds (during this time, light traveling at 300 000 000 m/s speed would travel only few micro meters!). So during all this time United States uses almost no electricity and laser usage becomes 40 Watts, just as much as weak light bulb. It looks that scientists are lying about all this enormous power just to get nice numbers but it isn't true as this power is actually achieved due to a very short pulse. And how is it good for us to have such a powerful laser? People won't have a chance to use it in regular activities for decades or even centuries but in science world it is huge news. This would save us billions of dollars as using such powerful laser would make particle accelerators to be only few meter long and still be as powerful as Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Let's just think big. What if instead of few meters the new accelerator would be hundred kilometers (10 000 times more powerful than LHC)? Then it would be easy to find not only Higgs boson but its constituents too. With time these lasers could also be used to ignite fusion which could give cheap electricity to everyone. So let's wait and we will see.