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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThWatcher" data-source="post: 5029596" data-attributes="member: 86237">{OOC: This is long.  If you want, skip to the last 2 paragraphs to get the gist of this whole post.}George watches each demonstration intently.  When they are done, he says, "I've noticed a couple of things and I need to verify a couple more.  First, let's verify the two things I suspect.  This will be a crude test but should tell me if what I suspect is true.  I need a sheet of paper.  Dip it in water and stick it to the front of the target."  Once the paper is in place and people have moved back and have their protective gear on, "Fire that prototype for only a half second."  After the test fire, "Notice the burn pattern.  The center spot on the paper was burned through.  But also notice that everywhere within a 6 inch radius of the burn spot, the paper is nearly dry and warm.  The water has been heated.  Even though your lenses have been focused for the infrared light, a considerable portion still escapes focus with distance.""What I'm about to tell you is one of the most important things you're learn about light.  Natural light, any light that was produced by nature or man so far is chaotic light.  The prototype is firing chaotic light.  Chaotic light has 2 main properties.  The first, and most easily seen, is color.  Put a prism in front of a sun beam and you see that the white light of the sun is made up of several colors.  At least 8  that are known.  Yes, I said 8, not 7."  George sets up a prism close to the target and places a new wet sheet of paper on the target.  Everyone moves back.  "OK, fire again for a half second."  After the test fire, "You saw the colors of the rainbow on the paper?  But notice that the burn spot is beyond where the red light hit the paper.  This tells us 2 things.  One, the 7 colors of the rainbow did 'not' burn the paper.  They do 'not' heat the target as much.  They do us little good.  They are wasted energy.  The second thing, most of the burned portion of the paper is under infrared color.  Your prototype is using 4 or more times the energy that is needed to burn the target.  You need a light generator that only produces the infrared color.  That will cut the heat generated in the prototype by 4 or more times.""Now, the second property of chaotic light is that it works against itself.  Let me show you in your ripple tank."  George sets up 5 different ripple generators all running at the same speed but not synchronized.  "See how each wave from each generator hits the wall at a different time.  See how high each wave goes up the wall.  Now watch what happens when all the waves are synchronized."  George synchronizes all the generators.  "Now, see how much farther up the wall the combined wave travels."  George lets that sink in and then points to the prototype.  "That unit is producing un-synchronized light.  Some waves are pushing high at the same time that some are pulling low.  The waves are fighting each other and producing only a fraction of the power on the target.  You need either a generator that produces only synchronized infrared light or a special lens that only lets light of a narrow synchronization through and reflects the rest back to bounce through the system till it is in synchronization.  Second, you need your generator to produce light that is moving in only one direction.  Not all directions like a candle.  Mirrors and lenses to make an omnidirectional light go in one direction isn't good enough.  All the light has to be generated going in only one direction, all in exact parallel."George takes a breath.  "That has been the focus of half of my research for the last 3 months."</blockquote>

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