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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Physics@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 年前

World's smallest particle accelerator is 54 million times smaller than the Large Hadron Collider, and it works

www.livescience.com

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World's smallest particle accelerator is 54 million times smaller than the Large Hadron Collider, and it works

www.livescience.com

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Physics@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 年前
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Scientists have created the world's first nanophotonic electron accelerator, which speeds negatively charged particles with mini laser pulses and is small enough to fit on a coin.
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    It’s interesting that people only really became aware of particle accelerators in the LHC sense. CRT televisions are also particle accelerators. It’s nothing too super new.

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      Around 1930 they had a particular accelarator at Berkeley called the Cyclotron…they had the coolest names back then

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        Large Hadron Collider is also a cool name. Are there newer accelerators with uncool names, like “TD Bank Accelerator”?

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          “randall”, he’s an old baseball pitcher who just throws the atoms really hard

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            It’s pronounced Nolan 😂

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          Yeah, but that’s just what it is and does. What’s it do? Collide. What’s it collide? Hadrons. How big is it? Large.

          I like the Cyclotron so much better. What does it do? I don’t fukken know, but it sounds cool as shit

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            Well, it’s like the Terminator. What does it do? It terminates. Still a cool name.

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            it trons cycles

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          I will always read its name as “Large Hardon Collider”. Could be its porn name.

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        Melbourne has the Synchrotron

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        Berkeley still has a cyclotron, though it’s a little newer (build in the 60’s) and much bigger.

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