Shine that light

A 13 year old Canadian school boy, Brenden Sener, has turned the heat on with his science fair project, a miniature and fortunately underpowered version of the death ray Archimedes’ wrote about.

Archimedes was a great scientist but he didn’t take the time to document how his invention was constructed and used, if it did actually exist, so it has disappeared into history and perhaps fiction. The same experiment was tried on Mythbusters but failed although President Obama asked them to retest it and that also failed. Why would a President want a death ray and now maybe a miniature death ray?

I am sure Brenden will make a great contribution to science but hopefully not in weapon design, we’re already pretty good at that. The future is unlimited and maybe he will be the one to cure cancer.

Dennis Fitzgerald,

Melbourne, Australia