Thanks BenLurkin.
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Posted on 09/02/2018 9:45:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin
That's a big deal, because it could lead to much smaller and cheaper particle accelerators than the ones we currently rely on.
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.
But this new experiment uses something known as plasma wakefield acceleration – and it takes up just 10 metres or 33 feet of space.
The team behind the Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) at CERN in Geneva has been working for five years to get a result like this, and while it's still early stages, this could end up driving a huge improvement in the way we examine the fundamental physics of the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
and while they’re riding he turns on the particle beam!
This might have applications for fusion research.
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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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-—..., 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!
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“Fusion research” is a hole-in-the-ocean cash cow for select “researchers.”
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You darned tooting or I may print mine out on my 3D printer as soon as the instructions are available.
Good luck. Keep us informed. If it’s successful we can think about creating a hand held device to use on our enemies!
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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.
Nuttin 2 worry bout....When they finally create “the Black Hole” in real time...we will never notice it happened....we won’t BE !
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.
Wow! What an amazing accomplishment! imagining those electrons zipping around in that plasma wave! I really felt bad for those slow electrons.
Good thing for them there’s still the Electronal College
Oddly enough the smaller black holes are the denser they are. I am not worried mankind will ever make anything compact enough for that
Enough with the mumbo jumbo — does this put us any closer to A Phased Plasma Rifle In The Forty Watt Range?
That's right. His products need to kill some people.
Thanks BenLurkin.
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.
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