Quick! To Professor Science's house!
(I'd do that experiment for three lab coats, and I don't even wear lab coats...)
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My dog has an interesting (okay, disgusting!) habit of rolling in the smelliest stuff she can find when we go o
"Hey, if our eyes could access the infrared part of the light spectrum, the sky would be green and trees would be red. Some animals see in completely different ways, so who knows what colors look like to them. Nothing is really how we perceive it." -Wendy Mass
I've been an avid skier for over 25 years -- but I didn't start using goggles until very recently.
A lot of people will object to the title of this post. I will be told to take the post down. I will be told to modify the title or to change what I say in the post.
Nope.
You're just jealous you didn't think of it first.
It's been done. But you need a small nuclear explosion to get enough photons to do anything useful. Focusing them is a bitch, too.
In the brief interval between fission trigger implosion and hydrogen bomb secondary ignition, a soft x-ray flow is diverted down the secondary's long axis to compress it as the central plutonium carrot is synchronously initiated through a depleted U-238 partition between the two stages. Declassified estimates of conditions in that interval estimate the viscosity of photon flow to exceed that of water - and perhaps molasses.
OTOH, a plebian multi-kilowatt CO2 laser will deliver an adequate point of sale argument without being a propulsive photon cannon.