ABSTRACT
Flat, straight sheets of paper, standing vertically on edge cannot
support any load placed upon their top edge, but once formed into fractal tube
conic sections, they have been measured to support up to 97.52 (± 2.27) kilograms (215 (± 5) pounds) of weight with
strength-per-weight ratio up to 10,336 (± 240).
So, strength has been discovered to be an emergent characteristic arising
solely from addition of intelligent order. It is proposed to impose such
intelligent order upon, preferably, at least 6 laser beams by focusing each of
them to form cones of light, arranging the cones to form a wall of a larger
fractal cone, and converging all of them to a common focal point inside a
vacuum chamber to give them sufficient strength near this focal point to attract,
hold, and move neutral antimatter, preferably anti-lithium. This opens the new
field of structural engineering of light and re-defines the concept of
strength. Means of cancelling out radiation pressure by reflection of laser
beams back to the common focal point are proposed to enable laser confinement
of particles having low polarizability, such as anti-hydrogen.
Counter-circulation of light by reflection at grazing incidence is proposed as
a means of returning escaping antimatter back to the common focal point
containment area. Means are proposed to inject a stream of matter into the
contained antimatter to create a matter-antimatter reactor and propulsion
engine. Since anti-lithium is not available, yet, means are proposed to test
these structures by confining ordinary lithium, instead, and by hitting it with
anti-protons and/or positrons. Means are
proposed to modulate the matter-antimatter reaction with information to
create modulated gravitational waves for communication. The proposed structures
would enable efficient, stable, safe confinement of antimatter, which would
allow better study of antimatter, and make possible renewable, clean, safe,
matter-antimatter reactor generators and propulsion engines,
antimatter-assisted fusion reactors, and modulated gravitational wave
generators.