How are folks taking their frustrations out about this Covid? Here is one of my latest attempts. Pretty useless, but a good cathartic geeky way to vent. Sort of anti-Covid art.
I've been reading of the various methods of killing the virus, how it is affected by everything: temperature, pH, RF radiation - etc. And I thought "How many kinds of energy could I hit the virus with all at once"? So, thats what this is. It is absolutely impractical for real world use, but was fun to do!
General outlay: setup on bed of lead and behind leaded glass. Antique uranium glass holder made the crosshairs for: multiple 1w+ lasers in various wavelengths, 5w UV B/C light, a 500w RF projector (throwing noise at it), and a strong alpha radiation source being magnified by a custom mixed gamma radiation source (Ra, Am, Be).
The damn thing is so bright when I have it all on that I need near welding goggles for it, and was worried about heat! Getting a picture without washing out my camera required me running it all at about 1/3 up, induction from the RF kept messing up electronics too. But it was fun and satisfying!
I prefer a sharp knife.
Well I guess a sharp enough knife and an electron microscope to steer it with might work. Take awhile one viri at a time!
@Observer-Effect -- Very sharp and very tiny. Part of my molecular splicing toolkit.
This is an awesome project! I do hope that you have (and are using) the necessary protective gear?
Do you have any way to test the effectiveness of this? That is, do you have samples of a virus (not the current boogyman, but possibly a less hazardous one,) and a powerful microscope?
Yep - pretty much dark glasses are the main thing. Not being right in front of my RF projector very much is smart. And I handle radioactive sources frequently and always safely.
This is really an art project because I can't really test it, and I've no desire to start messing with organic stuff. To easy to lose control of! However, its pretty certain that this box would kill anything put into it! I've already taken it back apart though, needed the lead blocks for another project and the lasers for a wave/particle experiment I'm trying. I am sick of this isolation but am so glad I'm at least locked in with a lab!