Eat your heart out, Mr. Freeze.A professor at the University of Virginia claims to have created a "freeze ray"-like device that was apparently inspired by Mr. Freeze, theBut before you get too excited about a frosty beam that can instantly freeze your enemies at a distance like Arnold Schwarzenegger's role in the 1997 film "Batman & Robin," the reality is a bit more muted.
His solution, for which he was awarded an appreciable $750,000 grant from the US Air Force, is a tiny plasma laser that can cool a surface — counterintuitively — by striking it. Still cool, as it were, but in a somewhat different way.The problem with being in space or an extremely thin atmosphere is that there's "very little air that can cool," Hopkins explained.
In previous experiments, Hopkins and his colleagues found that a purple jet of plasma cooled a gold-plated surface before heating it up — and puzzling yet replicable result.
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