Gravity vs. lasers

Jim Cheetham [email removed] writes:
>
> > Paul Baughman writes ...
> >
> >Gravity for stopping lasers?  This would work for missles, maybe, via tidal
> >effects, but not lasers.
>
> ...					you remember the Einstein experiment
> that involved watching the sun eclipse a star, and they proved that gravity
> had an effect on photons ... well ... the idea here is just to stop the
> laser hitting properly - anything that deflects it by even a small amount
> is good, as lasers have to hit parallel to a surface to do the most
> damage.

Quick reality check here; just how strong a gravitational field do you need
to have any useful effect on an incoming laser beam?  What effect is such a
field going to have on any mass in the vicinity?

"Captain, we stopped that pirate's lasers.  We also moved the third moon of
Regina out of its orbit.  I don't think we're very welcome here any more ..."

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