So if it's not enough that they needed to big an even larger atom smasher (CERN Labs), now they are going to try to build a laser that is so powerful it's theorized it may be able to rip a hole in space-time.

http://dvice.com/archives/2011/04/new-laser-will.php

"At peak power, the fourth laser in Europe's Extreme Light Infrastructure project (or ELI)

will combine ten beams into a single pulse measuring 200 petawatts. 200 petawatts is significantly more power that our entire race generates at any given moment, and in fact more total power than Earth receives from the sun.

The 200 petawatt pulses will only last 1.5 x 10^-14 second, which is about the same amount of time that it takes for light to travel from one side of a human hair to the other, if you shave the hair down by 90%.

The hope is that a laser this powerful might actually be able to tear apart the vacuum of space-time itself, revealing the matter and antimatter underneath."

anybody else here see the begining of the death star?

I'm sensing Mass Effect relays in the near future.

Yup. Totally the Death Star.

I hope they have a scientist named Gordan Freeman.

... that's no moon.

I want portals...

i want portals too.

I like the portal idea.

and we wonder why most of the EU is bankrupt