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Bendy Laser Beams Fired through the Air Sunday, April 12, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili Home >> Headlines >> Physics   
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The Norse thunder god Thor deflected lightning with his hammer. Physicists could soon replicate this feat using curved laser beams. Bending lightning around tall buildings and away from airports, power plants and other facilities is just one application for curved laser beams, says Jerome Moloney at the University of Arizona, Tuscon. He and his colleagues have now made the first such beams. "The real novelty is that we can curve light in the lab," he says. (source: nature.com)
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