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On tabletop accelerators
Tabletop accelerators are an exciting new field of research in which physicists use devices the size of a shoe box, or something just a bit bigger, to accelerate electrons to high energies. The ‘conventional way’ to do this has been … Continue reading
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Exploring what it means to be big
Reading a Nature report titled ‘Step aside CERN: There’s a cheaper way to break open physics‘ (January 10, 2018) brought to mind something G. Rajasekaran, former head of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, told me once: that the future … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, classical physics, cyclotrons, Large Hadron Collider, laser wakefield acceleration, tabletop accelerators
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