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Could gravitational forces between particles in a beam tighten a beam as it travels?
by blackboxlogic 4y ago
Could gravitational forces between particles in a beam tighten a beam as it travels?
- moloch-hai 4y agoYes. Curiously, this would work even for a sufficiently intense beam of light. It is called "self-focusing", and has been proposed for use in an interstellar transport network. Your vehicles would need not to be ripped apart to individual nucleons by the intensity of the beam.