![Scientists Create Star Matter In California
“You’re looking at the heart of the most powerful X-Ray laser machine ever created by humans, billions of times stronger than anything before it. It’s the Linac Coherent Light Source and it has made something that nobody has made before in this planet: the kind of matter that you can only find in the heart of stars and giant planets.
US Department of Energy’s scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory fired the LCLS at a small cube of aluminum only one-thousandth of a centimeter (0.00039 inches) on a side. As the X-Ray rapid-fire laser pulses converged on the aluminum, it created a superhot solid plasma burning at 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit (two million degrees Celsius).
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In the image above you can see the Linac Coherent Light Source SXR experimental chamber. In the center there’s the container for the aluminum cube that gets converted into the solid plasma.”
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Scientists Create Star Matter In California
“You’re looking at the heart of the most powerful X-Ray laser machine ever created by humans, billions of times stronger than anything before it. It’s the Linac Coherent Light Source and it has made something that nobody has made before in this planet: the kind of matter that you can only find in the heart of stars and giant planets.
US Department of Energy’s scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory fired the LCLS at a small cube of aluminum only one-thousandth of a centimeter (0.00039 inches) on a side. As the X-Ray rapid-fire laser pulses converged on the aluminum, it created a superhot solid plasma burning at 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit (two million degrees Celsius).
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In the image above you can see the Linac Coherent Light Source SXR experimental chamber. In the center there’s the container for the aluminum cube that gets converted into the solid plasma.”[More]
If you were standing at arm’s length from someone and each of you had one percent more electrons than protons, the repelling force would be incredible. How great? Enough to lift the Empire State building? No! To lift Mount Everest? No! The repulsion would be enough to lift a “weight” equal to that of the entire earth!
– Richard FeynmanThe poetry of physics, dancing and life
My TEDxUW talk is online now. Thanks once again to the organizers for putting on such a great conference. It was a pleasure and honour to participate.
In March I have been invited to speak at TEDxWaterloo as well.
(Source: quantumpie.com)
Via Quantum Pie with Krister Shalm
Disclaimer: I’ve never read Harry Potter.
But this, this is fantastic. I’ll have to add quantumpie to my blogs to watch. Click (here) to read more on this project by Canadian physicist Krister Shalm and magician Dan Trommater, which brings the physics of Harry Potter to life.
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