Warning: ancient PSB Re: [FT] Lasers

I found this in my Save as Draft area, and now I can't even recall to whom I
was attempting a reply. It's all gobbledegook, but when you're talking about
statistical analysis of instantaneous effects at a distance, what isn't?

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For reasonable SF figures of all the above you can get ranges of about 1000
km. Of course at that sort of range keeping your laser, with its big lens, on
the target for any useful amount of time is another problem.
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I realize this was strictly about lasers, but as a very young man, I saw the
Federation ships in a copy of the ST Tech Manual, and noticed the phasers
appeared to be spherical, though mostly buried in the hull of the ship.

I envisioned a structure I called a monad, based on Leibnitz's perfect
internally reflectioning spheres representing personalities. This structure,
instead of being the 'classical' laser, a tube, would reflect the light energy
from the entire inner surface. Targeting involved something like Feynman
particle interaction; firing involved an induced failure of the reflection in
the appropriate area on the surface.
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ST PSB always involved 'cascade failure'; I so wanted to call the opening for
the phased shot that...

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