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The pocket-sized accelerator
The world’s largest machine is called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It’s in the shape of a ring with a circumference of 26 km, and cost $3.4 billion (Rs 24,262 crore) and 12 years to build. Using millions of electrical … Continue reading
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Tagged acceleration gradient, ACHIP, biofuels production, cargo screening, flue gas treatment, inverse design, laser plasma acceleration, materials processing, particle accelerator, photonic circuit, photonic integrated circuit, Robert L Byer, slab waveguide, sterilisation, tabletop accelerator, wakefield accelerator, water treatment
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New Scientist violates the laws of physics (updated)
A new article in the New Scientist begins with a statement of Newton’s third law that is blissfully ignorant of the irony. The article’s headline is: The magazine is notorious for its use of sensationalist headlines and seems to have done it again. Jon … Continue reading
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Tagged David Burns, em drive, helical drive, laws of physics, mass-energy equivalence, mass-energy-momentum equivalence, momentum, particle accelerator, special relativity
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