• pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
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    10 months ago

    That’s the assumption, yes. But if the beams are coherent (like a laser) atmospheric interference would be a lot smaller.

    The real question is whether the light would be coherent, which I lean towards no on.

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      10 months ago

      It’s not even coherent when the sun emits it. For one, it consists of a large range of wavelengths… And I doubt there’s a way to make light coherent at that order of magnitude.