{"id":120914,"date":"2021-03-26T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/the-worlds-strongest-laser-is-about-to-simulate-a-supernova"},"modified":"2021-03-26T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:23:50","slug":"the-worlds-strongest-laser-is-about-to-simulate-a-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/the-worlds-strongest-laser-is-about-to-simulate-a-supernova","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Strongest Laser is About to Simulate a Supernova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-strongest-laser-is-about-to-simulate-a-supernova2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s most powerful laser is scheduled for a slate of experiments next year.<\/p>\n<p>The laser, in Romania, managed to fire at 10 petawatts \u2014 that\u2019s one-tenth the power of all the sunlight that reaches Earth concentrated into a single laser beam \u2014 during a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eli-np.ro\/\" class=\"\" >test run in March<\/a>. Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/290863-massive-10-petawatt-laser-can-vaporize-matter?source=Extreme\" class=\"\" >according to <em>ExtremeTech<\/em><\/a>, the scientists behind it intend to discover new high-energy cancer treatments and simulate supernovas to reveal how the stellar explosions form heavy metals.<\/p>\n<p>The laser is part of the European Union\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/eli-laser.eu\/the-eli-project\/\" class=\"\" >Extreme Light Infrastructure<\/a> project. The hope is that lasers will lead to new medical techniques, a better understanding of how the universe works, and improved nuclear safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s most powerful laser is scheduled for a slate of experiments next year. The laser, in Romania, managed to fire at 10 petawatts \u2014 that\u2019s one-tenth the power of all the sunlight that reaches Earth concentrated into a single laser beam \u2014 during a test run in March. Now, according to ExtremeTech, the scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}