Originally posted by jimslyp69
You better point it out to me then.. I have no way of figuring it out.
Its a bit much to put in this post for sure. Here is the short version:
The two laser beams will meet about 54 billion miles from the sun.
That is the focal point of the gravitational lens, but only the
first focal point. If you move the laser beams I mentioned earlier
out from the surface of the sun, tangentially the focal point is farther
away so there is in fact a focal line to this affair. If you take light
from Sirius, there is a focus of that light in a kind of searchlight
on the opposited side of the sun from Sirius and also from every
other star in the galaxy. They all have focused light in a streamer
of searchlights all starting at the 54 billion mile distance.
If you think about it you see a hidden stream of focused energy
from every star in the universe, so its a kind of movie screen of
all the energy passing this way, including neutrinos, radio, xray,
protons, matter, etc all bend to the tune of the local dip in
the curvature of space. Its an awesome thing to think about, if
we only had a craft capable of going that distance, about
1000 AU, you get free gain if you have a telescope or radio telescope
and can even power solar sails by riding the most powerful of the
beams. Remember I mentioned the earth is bathed in 13 megawatts
from Sirius directly, imagine the amount of energy in ITS like of
focus, GIGA watts just streaming by for free, a river of energy
just waiting to be tapped, used for propulsion, for power generation
for a spacecraft, etc. One other aspect, these beams can deflect
comets a bit from their regular orbits in the Oort cloud and cause
them to stream into the central system and create havoc by
crashing into various planets and asteroids in the inner system.
There is so much more I don't have room to tell here, you might
come up with your own ideas. Thats the 50 cent tour anyway.