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It is my understanding that lasers can affect the inertia of certian bodies, that a focused lazer can essentially 'grab' and direct atoms. If this is the case, then I don't see why this force can't be directed to translate big things, like people.
Don't shoot lasers at me, though. Shoot them at the
little jewels in my flying suit.
My brainwaves are input and processed, the output fed to the machine that controls where the lasers point. Another input to that machine is the exact location of my jewels with infrared beams and such.
I jump into The Field, where laser turrets border the perimeter every 10 feet.
I begin to imagine myself flying and, lo and behold, I'm soaring, dangling wingless, swopping through the air in tumbles and twirls while turrets blast at my shiny suit. It's amazing nobody ever gets hurt. Truly a miracle of science.
Not quite flying potential, but, cool stuff anyway.
http://www.umich.ed...ar18_97/artcl06.htm
[daseva, Jun 10 2005]
Optical tweezers. Now, wheres the optical forklift?
http://www.stanford...%20Introduction.htm
[daseva, Jun 10 2005]
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Brilliant...and practical, except how in the hell are you going to attach little jewels in your flying suit? |
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The crux! <runs away, screaming and flailing, into the Forests of Azure> |
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Giant magnets will attach the jewels to the flying suit (giant magnets seem to be the solution to all problems in the HalfBakery) |
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Well, I'd agree with you, but that kind of generalizing is stale. It leaves the taste of dryer lint in my mouth. |
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At any rate, you could use magnets, but I'm sure you could just sew them on. |
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So, you're going to make yourself fly
with optical tweezers? Amongst the
"miracales of science", you'll also need
to shrink yourself by a few orders of
magnitude. Then you'll only be able to
SHOW [pave] if he happens to have a
jolly good microscope. |
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There's gotta be a way to get those lasers to pull us around... |
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Looks to me like a matador's 'traje de luces' ("suit of lights"). Grab that cape and take it for a paseo! |
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So...Basically you want us to shoot lasers at you jewels???? |
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//giant magnets seem to be the solution to all problems in the HalfBakery)//. No, that would be custard. |
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Should this idea be renamed Icarus ? |
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Notwithstanding my earlier anno, it is,
in fact, possible to levitate a human
with a sufficiently big laser. You need
something that will deliver about 500W
average power, but pulsed for about
10ns in every millisecond, and down
around the green end of the visible
spectrum. It'll also need a cooling
system, of course, and the power
supply.
You will also need a rope,
a pulley, and a suitable suspension
point for the pulley. Attach self to one
end of rope, run rope over pulley,
attach laser, cooler and power supply to
the other end, and you will rise into the
air. |
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Oh yeah, and I'd strongly advise no one to speak of the Tree - www.halfbakery.com/user/Tree |
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