PrecisionXXX opened this issue on Sep 06, 2012 · 13 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 06 September 2012 at 12:44 PM
Mirrors (and prisms) are used all the time to turn or split laser beams. They do not burn through.
In fact, the famous Michelson Morley experiment was all about using beam splitters (half mirrors) to send a single coherent beam in two different directions over some identical distance, send them back, and compare them, as an attempt to detect relative motion wthin the "aether".
The laser stayed so coherent and synchronized that it proved there is no such thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment
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