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It really makes you appreciate the power of a beam of relativistic electrons, when you consider that it's managing to cause a star to basically flicker.
by Aelinsaar 10y ago
It really makes you appreciate the power of a beam of relativistic electrons, when you consider that it's managing to cause a star to basically flicker.
- the8472 10y agoit's not just a matter of velocity but also of flux. you couldn't use the LHC to make a star flicker. It's just enough to melt a car.
- Natsu 10y agoExactly how ridiculous would it be to create the flux needed to use this to modulate our star? Or what about some other star? Could it be used as a means of communication? Sure, other means are easier but this would be visible even to a very low tech civilization and people who had nothing better to do used to watch the stars a lot. I'm guessing we're several orders of magnitude away from the kind of flux that could do that sort of thing, but I have to wonder...
- Aelinsaar 10y agoI mean, it would probably help to have a white dwarf that you could two around and manipulate somehow.