Timeline for Could an electromagnetic pulse be made directional?
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| Jan 27, 2023 at 21:21 | answer | added | Richard Kirk | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 27, 2023 at 15:49 | comment | added | Jon Custer | Like en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/… - so yes… | |
| Jan 27, 2023 at 13:54 | answer | added | Boba Fit | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 26, 2023 at 17:32 | comment | added | JBH | BTW, if you search for "electromagnetic pulse" on this site, you'll find a LOT of answers (including several of mine, here's one of my favorites). In other words, there's a better-than-average chance your question could be a duplicate. Please review the search results first. Cheers. | |
| Jan 26, 2023 at 17:31 | comment | added | JBH | Simply, "yes." An EMP is nothing more than a strong pulse of photons (radio, visible light, microwaves, x-rays, gamma rays, etc.). Traditionally we view it as an uncontrolled byproduct of a nuclear explosion - but using a radio station to jam radio waves is an "electromagnetic pulse." So, yes, certainly it can be made directional. How strong it must be to do the damage you want at the distance you want and whether or not the antenna can handle that (@AlexP's right about that) is another matter (if that matter). I'm thinkin' you should delete this question and ask something much more specific. | |
| Jan 26, 2023 at 17:01 | comment | added | AlexP | Oh, and you need to realize that all the energy of the EM pulse must pass through that antenna. Molten antennas are bad antennas. | |
| Jan 26, 2023 at 16:58 | comment | added | AlexP | Electromagnetic pulses do not fry microchips, at least not directly. What they do is they induce a large current in long conductors, such as power lines. If a microchip is connected to such a long conductor, then it fries. If it is not connected to such a long conductor, then it does not fry. (Yes, you can imagine an electromagnetic pulse strong enough to fry microchips directly; but in this case it will also fry the two meters long salt water conductor known as the human wearing the phone. Large humans are very much better than tiny phones at coupling with EM pulses.) | |
| Jan 26, 2023 at 16:52 | comment | added | wokopa | The kind that fries microchips | |
| Jan 26, 2023 at 16:49 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | Can you be more specific? A laser is a very directional electromagnetic pulse... would that satisfy your request? | |
| Jan 26, 2023 at 16:41 | history | asked | wokopa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |