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Your phone flashlight puts out about 50 lumens. Lights like this push past 100,000, which is why the paper sitting on the lens starts smoking within seconds. At that output, light stops feeling like light because photons carry real energy. Whatever the paper absorbs instead of reflecting converts straight to heat, and paper self-ignites around 450°F. Right at the glass, a beam like this is dozens of times more intense than direct sunlight, which you can check yourself by dividing 100,000…