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e23 A high-average-power chirped-pulse laser pointed at nothing, intended to measure the breakdown potential of vacuum ie. how many infrared photons you have to smash together to form an electron-positron pair.
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I'll go with Homo sapiens. We started out pretty crazy compared to the rest of nature and are getting recursively more so. Nothing we've built comes close to the insanity that designs them.