On Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 04:54 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
Quoting Anonymous (nobody@paranoici.org):
If a block of a metal is hollowed out and a small port is drilled to see in, the radiance of the cavity is substantially higher than that of the surface of the metal. As if that weren't shocking enough, it turns out that the radiance of cavities is the same no matter what kind of metal is used. (This is so counterintuitive that I almost don't believe it!)
This is actually a phenomenal result. If one makes a large enough apparatus so that the cavity is very, very large with a correspondingly small port is drilled, you've then got the makings of a great beam weapon.
No you don't. Read up on the Stefan-Boltzmann laws and figure out what frequencies (energies) a black body radiator emits. Get real. --Tim May