{"id":4526,"date":"2010-02-08T12:49:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T12:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/08\/amazing-laser-application-1-li\/"},"modified":"2010-02-08T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T12:49:32","slug":"amazing-laser-application-1-li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/08\/amazing-laser-application-1-li\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Laser Application 1: Light Show!"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s the application?<\/strong> The use of lasers to provide an entertaining light show for humans, dogs, or cats.<\/p>\n

What problem(s) is it the solution to?<\/strong> 1) “How will I entertain my dog or cat?”<\/p>\n

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2) “How can we distract people from the fact that Roger Daltrey has no voice left?”<\/p>\n

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Why are lasers essential?<\/strong> Lasers provide coherent beams of light, which remain small over very large distances, allowing you to project a small spot or a tight beam across a room, or even a football stadium.<\/p>\n

Why is it cool?<\/strong> Duuuuude! Lasers, duuuuude!<\/p>\n

Why isn’t it cool enough<\/em>?<\/strong> 1) It’s fundamentally just a toy. 2) No amount of laser light could keep the Who’s halftime show from being kind of sad.<\/p>\n

(This post is the first of twelve highlighting amazing laser applications<\/a>, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first laser<\/a>. These posts serve as a lead-up to an audience poll asking what the coolest laser application is, so if you like lasers and radio buttons, watch this space over the next week or so.<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s the application? The use of lasers to provide an entertaining light show for humans, dogs, or cats. What problem(s) is it the solution to? 1) “How will I entertain my dog or cat?” 2) “How can we distract people from the fact that Roger Daltrey has no voice left?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,188,169,15,7,37,11,56,136],"tags":[168,187,114,189,190,115,92,88,186,191],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog","category-laser_smackdown","category-lasers","category-music","category-physics","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-technology","category-video","tag-contest","tag-dog-2","tag-laser","tag-light-show","tag-music-2","tag-optics-2","tag-physics-2","tag-science-2","tag-technology-2","tag-toy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}