Warning: ancient PSB Re: [FT] Lasers

I found this in my Save as Draft area, and now I can't even recall to
whom
I was attempting a reply. It's all gobbledegook, but when you're talking
about statistical analysis of instantaneous effects at a distance, what
isn't?

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For reasonable SF figures of all the above you can get ranges of
about 1000 km. Of course at that sort of range keeping your laser,
with its big lens, on the target for any useful amount of time is
another problem.
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I realize this was strictly about lasers, but as a very young man, I saw
the Federation ships in a copy of the ST Tech Manual, and noticed the
phasers appeared to be spherical, though mostly buried in the hull of
the
ship.

I envisioned  a structure I called a monad, based on Leibnitz's perfect
internally reflectioning spheres representing personalities. This
structure, instead of being the 'classical' laser, a tube, would reflect
the light energy from the entire inner surface. Targeting involved
something like Feynman particle interaction; firing involved an induced
failure of the reflection in the appropriate area on the surface.
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ST PSB always involved 'cascade failure'; I so wanted to call the
opening
for the phased shot that...

The_Beast