[Professor Mega-Mind (OP)]

............"That's impossible !" .
Ya ever watch Beevis & Butt-Head ?
Anyway , your own fellow "scientist" ( Har , har , har...) admits that there should be a powerful impact on  the target end .
About your question : You fire a laser at the G.ball , Godzilla screams in agony , aims his "Death Breath" at you , and burns your body off !
Theere , ya happy ?
P.M.

[Bored chemist]

What happens to the track of the centre of the ball?

[Bored chemist]

Anyway , your own fellow "scientist" ( Har , har , har...) admits that there should be a powerful impact on  the target end .

Where?
I saw this

All of these factors come together to make the thrust exactly the same as in my first calculation: 3.3356 newtons.

That's still under a pound of force.

[Professor Mega-Mind (OP)]

..........Missing the obvious .
Reply # 226 clearly implies that the target impact is greater than 21 sticks of dynamite per sec .
P.M.

[Kryptid]

Reply # 226 clearly implies that the target impact is greater than 21 sticks of dynamite per sec .

As I said before, energy is not force. The two are not even proportional to each other. The factor you are missing is time. The equation for determining impact force is (2 x mass x velocity)/time. So you can have the exact same amount of mass moving at the exact same speed but produce wildly different forces depending on the time period involved in target contact.

The explosive component of dynamite is nitroglycerin, which has a detonation velocity of 7,700 meters per second. Let's say we have a stick of dynamite with a radius of 2 centimeters. At 7,700 meters per second, it would take only 0.0000026 seconds for the entire stick to explode. You could time the explosion of each of those 21 sticks to happen at the same time, which means you have 21 sticks of dynamite exploding in 0.0000026 seconds.

Your engine, on the other hand, is accelerating electrons to that same level of kinetic energy over 1 second. That's about 385,000 times longer of a time period. Is it apparent now why the exploding dynamite produces more force?

[Bored chemist]

..........Missing the obvious .
Reply # 226 clearly implies that the target impact is greater than 21 sticks of dynamite per sec .

That's not "obvious" it's wrong.
So, let's backtrack.
Because you didn't understand post  226 you thought that someone agreed with you and you thought that was significant.

Where does that now leave you?
Also
What happens to the track of the centre of the ball?
Are you unable to answer, or is it that you daren't because you realise that it undermines everything you have said?

[Professor Mega-Mind (OP)]

.............Uselessly Tricky .
Tricky monkeys !  Even .8 GJ equals .59 Billion foot-pounds of force !  That's enough to push a battleship around !
Why punish yourselves here ?  Just admit that the energy translation would produce a hellacious push !
P.M.

[Kryptid]

Even .8 GJ equals .59 Billion foot-pounds of force !

Foot-pounds are a measure of energy, not force.

[Professor Mega-Mind (OP)]

It's enough to raise the QE2 a foot.  Come now , MAN UP !
Jeez , it's like pulling teeth around here !
P.M.

[Kryptid]

It's enough to raise the QE2 a foot.  Come now , MAN UP !
Jeez , it's like pulling teeth around here !
P.M.

So what? It's still not a force and therefore not a means of measuring the thrust of your engine.

[Professor Mega-Mind (OP)]

..............Most annoying
81M newtons , or 18.2 Mlbs .
Are you screeching , and jumping for joy now ?  Sheesh !
P.M.

[Kryptid]

..............Most annoying
81M newtons , or 18.2 Mlbs .
Are you screeching , and jumping for joy now ?  Sheesh !
P.M.

Where did you get those numbers from?

[Bored chemist]

Just admit that the energy translation would produce a hellacious push !

Why would we "admit" something that's not right?
The force is still less than a pound.

You really need to go + learn why there is a difference between force and energy.
Why don't you?
Are you scared?

What happens to the track of the centre of the ball?
Are you unable to answer, or is it that you daren't because you realise that it undermines everything you have said?

[Bored chemist]

..............Most annoying
81M newtons , or 18.2 Mlbs .
Are you screeching , and jumping for joy now ?  Sheesh !
P.M.

You pulled those numbers from thin air.
Do you think that's how science works?
What happens to the track of the centre of the ball?
Are you unable to answer, or is it that you daren't because you realise that it undermines everything you have said?

[Professor Mega-Mind (OP)]

..................Petty B.S.
It SHOULD be obvious that it is the force necessary to accelerate .6Mlb. to 1ft per second . 
However , if you want to amuse the world by claiming that .8 GWsec in kinetic energy  ( .8 GJ ) transferred by MATTER results in a force of one pound for one second on a target , I must question more than your numerical competence .  Go ahead , advertise the difference between our logic capabilities !
P.M.

[Kryptid]

It SHOULD be obvious that it is the force necessary to accelerate .6Mlb. to 1ft per second . 

No particular force is required to accelerate 600,000 pounds to 1 foot per second because 1 foot per second is a speed, not an acceleration. A very small force acting over a very long time period will get 600,000 pounds up to 1 foot per second just fine.

However , if you want to amuse the world by claiming that .8 GWsec in kinetic energy  ( .8 GJ ) transferred by MATTER results in a force of one pound for one second on a target , I must question more than your numerical competence .  Go ahead , advertise the difference between our logic capabilities !
P.M.

I already did that in reply #188, though technically it was 0.975087 GW/s and a force of 0.75 pounds.

[Bored chemist]

Go ahead , advertise the difference between our logic capabilities !

OK
You are completely unable to understand the logic of this  situation. Kryptid and I are able to do so. That's' the difference in "our logic capabilities ".

In part, this is because we know some stuff about science.
Mainly it's because you can't get to grips with the fact that you don't know anything about physics. So, you repeat the same schoolboy errors.

Would you like me to advertise your utter ignorance anywhere else as well?

[Professor Mega-Mind (OP)]

..................Rolling in it !
 IN ONE SECOND ! Tell me you didn't realise that !  Even your Low-brow School classmates would have recognised that !  Time to stop the dishonest cow-crud , and admit the basic facts here , not the absurd quibbling over wording which appears to be all you self-proclaimed "scientists" can produce !  It’s getting embarrassing  even to have MY system associated with your rediculous twaddle !
Professor  ( earned as a kid , inspite of the automatic zero ) Megamind  !
!

[Kryptid]

..................Rolling in it !
 IN ONE SECOND ! Tell me you didn't realise that !  Even your Low-brow School classmates would have recognised that !  Time to stop the dishonest cow-crud , and admit the basic facts here , not the absurd quibbling over wording which appears to be all you self-proclaimed "scientists" can produce !  It’s getting embarrassing  even to have MY system associated with your rediculous twaddle !
Professor  ( earned as a kid , inspite of the automatic zero ) Megamind  !
!

Sorry, but that doesn't work. You can't calculate a force when all you have to go on is energy and time. Mass is a critical component as well. Given the way that your engine works, you can't accelerate more than 5.686 micrograms of electrons in one second anyway (assuming an energy of 1 MeV per photon). So the idea that your engine can accelerate 600,000 pounds of electrons in one second is completely off the table and irrelevant to the discussion.

[Professor Mega-Mind (OP)]

........Common Sense Here !
To envision this clearly , imagine 298 horses pulling max-hard for 1 hour , or imagine 590 MILLION foot/pounds of work done .  Cram those into 1 second , and you have the force applied to the target CONTINUOUSLY , as long as you are feeding in 1GW of power , in the form of HEX-rays .  I really do not want to hear any more cockamamie blathering about THAT equaling 1 pound of force ! 
I think it is exactly what I claimed from the start ; a potentially very strong , Space Drive .
Now , in the name of professional decor , stop spraying me as if you are somebody's pet pot-bellied pig.
Professor Megamind