For The First Time, Scientists Have Accelerated Electrons in a Plasma Wave

sciencealert.com ^ | 2 SEP 2018 | DAVID NIELD

[Reily]

and while they’re riding he turns on the particle beam!

[Nateman]

This might have applications for fusion research.

[editor-surveyor]

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All “break-throughs” in particle physics are announced a decade or more after they are proven technology.
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[MichaelCorleone]

-—..., you need a concrete tunnel about 27 kilometres (nearly 17 miles) long and US$5 billion in spare change.-—

Only $5 billion? It’s a bargain - I’ll take it!

[editor-surveyor]

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“Fusion research” is a hole-in-the-ocean cash cow for select “researchers.”
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[BipolarBob]

You darned tooting or I may print mine out on my 3D printer as soon as the instructions are available.

[Nateman]

Fusion research sure seems like a money pit. Sometimes I wonder if the gravity wave detections at LIGO are nothing but a big scam. With billions of dollars involved there is plenty of incentive to cheat.

[jmacusa]

Good luck. Keep us informed. If it’s successful we can think about creating a hand held device to use on our enemies!

[jmacusa]

Not sure. Might need a Flux Capacitor though.

[editor-surveyor]

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Pons and Fleishman definitely had the answer, and that answer threatened the wealthy and powerful, and the hotshots at the National Labratories.

Fusion by containment will never be productive.

[litehaus]

Nuttin 2 worry bout....When they finally create “the Black Hole” in real time...we will never notice it happened....we won’t BE !

[texas booster]

Right now, if you want to install a Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator in your back garden, you need a concrete tunnel about 27 kilometres (nearly 17 miles) long and US$5 billion in spare change.

Funny that. I have an abandoned 54 mile tunnel under me in Ellis County. I think that they made it about 14 miles underground. Killed by politics not by the science.

Abandoned except for the HQ it would be a neat bike track until we could get the extra government funding to shoot 10+ GEv particle beams through it.

[I want the USA back]

Wow! What an amazing accomplishment! imagining those electrons zipping around in that plasma wave! I really felt bad for those slow electrons.

[BenLurkin]

Good thing for them there’s still the Electronal College

[Nateman]

Oddly enough the smaller black holes are the denser they are. I am not worried mankind will ever make anything compact enough for that

[jiggyboy]

Enough with the mumbo jumbo — does this put us any closer to A Phased Plasma Rifle In The Forty Watt Range?

[Right Wing Assault]

and while they’re riding he turns on the particle beam!

That's right. His products need to kill some people.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[AFPhys]

I’ll have to think about this a while. 2Gev in 10m is pretty substantial, but I can’t help but wonder how to scale it up to usable energies.