In reply to Eric Walker's message of Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:13:25 -0700: Hi, [snip] >On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:54 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >The gas is contained within a cavity that is dimensioned and tuned to the >> laser >> light wavelength, just like an ordinary gas laser. AFAIK the protons are >> accelerated along the axis of the laser. >> > >My thought was that the light would go back and forth within the cavity, >resulting in a net force of zero on the protons. In that case, would it >only be once the light emerges from an opening on one side of the cavity >and exited that a positive force could be exerted on a body? > >Eric
You are probably correct. If so, then it's easily compensated for by putting two devices next to one another, facing in opposite directions. Then let the laser light exit the resonant cavity before entering the space where the protons & Thorium are. The fission products from one reactor then excite the lasing atoms of the other. They "feed" one another so to speak. source ---> target target <--- source Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
