Provided it doesn’t hit a pilot in the eye!
In: 32
Assuming absolutely perfect conditions with absolutely no flaws in your laser, the light gets spread out and weakened by the inverse square law, which states that intensity is inversly proportional to the square of the distance from a source. Think of it this way: double the distance, and you get four times less power. The farther the light gets from it’s source, the weaker light gets until it would not be discernable from other light sources. The photons themselves, however, would continue to travel until they hit something that absorbs it.
And, since I feel like someone will say something about this, I’d like to mention that light and radio waves are basically the same thing, which is electromagnetic radiation. Light is RF at a really high frequency, so any laws that affect radio waves also affect light.
Latest Answers