The world's most powerful laser decodes a mysterious mystery

A facility that produces laser beams strong enough to analyze the structure of space (vacuum) can be built in the UK in a new science project, to help scientists answer basic issues. most about the universe.

After the project of manufacturing the largest Large Hadron Collider (LHC), this will be the latest, large-scale scientific experiment proposed by physicists to create the most powerful laser beam. Gender (UHF) has the ability to allow scientists to clearly analyze space structures - vacuum.

Unlike conventional thinking, vacuum reality is not nothing . On the contrary, it contains many mysterious small particles . However, these particles have a very fast movement speed so it is very difficult for scientists to prove their existence.

The project of producing extremely intense light (ELI) will produce a high-intensity laser that allows scientists to discover particles that exist in the vacuum for the first time. Scientists also believe that lasers will help them prove whether there is any extra dimension (outside three dimensions: long, wide, high).

Extremely powerful lasers will expose particles in a vacuum.

'This laser is 200 times stronger than the most powerful laser currently in existence. With this intensity, we can begin to explore the areas of physics that have never been studied before. ' , Professor John Collier, head of the ELI project and director of the Laser Center at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, Oxfordshire, said.

The ELI project will be completed by the end of this decade at an estimated cost of £ 1 billion. Although it has not yet been able to accurately locate this laser production facility, it may be built in the United Kingdom.

This year, the European Commission has also approved a plan to build three other laser manufacturing facilities in the ELI project and will serve as a prototype for creating super-strong laser beams. The three facilities are expected to be built near the coast of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, each with an investment of around £ 200 million and are expected to go into operation in 2015.

The laser manufacturing facility will create 10 beams, each twice as powerful as the prototype lasers, which can produce 200 petawatt (1petawatt = a thousand million million watts) of electrical power, more than 100,000 times stronger. electricity production capacity of the whole world in a short time of less than 1,000 billion seconds (ie 0.0000000000 seconds).

This large energy will create a laser beam strong enough to survive in space for a certain period of time, focusing on a microscopic point, like sunlight passing through a magnifying glass. At that point of focus, very intense laser light creates a very harsh condition that light in the center of the sun cannot survive.

Meanwhile, the process of revealing mysterious particles and antimatter in the vacuum, allowing scientists to detect tiny particles of charge. These particles are also called "ghost particles" because they often disappear as soon as they appear.

But by using lasers to pull them apart so they can remain relatively constant for a certain time, physicists believe they will be able to detect them. Further, scientists can solve the mysteries of the universe, including the 'dark matter' problem .

In addition to helping to discover physics, scientists believe that the ultra-powerful laser manufacturing facility will also provide new lasers for cancer treatment and medical diagnosis.