kenthorvath writes "This guy and his friend built their own cyclotron, capable of 1 MeV protons using spare parts and surplus science equipment. Anyone else happen to have a 4600 lb. magnet lying around?"
So now we know what's at the galactic center...
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Anonymous Coward
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An alien experiment that went seriously south and created a massive black hole.
Remember, kids, don't try this at home!
If it doesn't work out...
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MacOS_Rules
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This is what seems to be a very cool application of putting old equipment to good work. And hey, if it turns out that it doesn't work, he has a cheep and effective form of birth control...
*shudders* Me thinks of the advertisments for DIY permenant birth control... =O
-- If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
-Thackeray, William
Re:If it doesn't work out...
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LordDartan
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So, are you saying being around a 4600lb magnet is birth control, or being a big enough geek to have a 4600lb magnet is the birth control??
Ray: "You know, it just occured to me that we really haven't had a successful test of this equipment." Egon: "I blame myself." Peter: "So do I." Ray: "Well, no sense in worrying about it now." Peter: "Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back."
-- --"You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think."
We better not let terrorists get ahold of the protons; after all all nuclear weapons are made of them!
Fun with anti-matter?
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Crasoum
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It deffinatly would be interesting.....
Then again I know I wouldn't want -any- of my friends that are even remotely intelligent (and even less those that are not intelligent) to be messing with particle acceleration...
"Mom.... You did say you wanted a skylight didn't you?"
Hemispheric safety.
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Trusty+Penfold
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These amateur experiments are very impressive but I'm always worried that the lack of safety guidance will lead imitators into trouble. For example, with this equipment there are potential safety issues if the experiment is replicated in the southern hemisphere.
In the southern hemisphere or, more specifically, south of the topic of Capricorn, the particles will need to spin the other way. This can be achieved in many ways; none of which were mentioned in the original article. For example; 1) Turn the equipment upside down. 2) Use magnets of opposite polarity. 3) Use anti-protons instead of protons,
Just one of these needs to be done to transofrm a southern cyclotron from a deathtrap into a fun and safe piece of equipment.
Re:He is right, you know?
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NewtonsLaw
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Ban aluminum?
Curses, "foiled" again!
Since nobody else is on the ball...
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Guppy06
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"Question is, what are they going to do with it?"
PROFIT!
Re:This is very interesting indeed.
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Artifex
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I am in high school and very interested in physics and it would be an awsome project to work on something like this.
"...but the fact that average people can take a sound scientific principle and turn it into something physical for a handful of bills is wonderful"
Erm... the average person can't work a VCR let alone build a cyclotron... hell they probalby think a cyclotron is one of those exercise bikes from the shopping channel.
Now that's a real friend..someone who helps you build your own cyclotron.
Reminds me of a good story . . .
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arnie_apesacrappin
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Anyone else happen to have a 4600 lb. magnet lying around?
When I was in school, one of my professors (the guy who's work is talked about in this/. article) told me this story about a large magnet. Keep in mind, I'm recalling this from memory, and I was in college when it was told to me. Therefore, it is an approximation of the actual events that took place.
A large cylindrical magnet was being delivered to a second floor lab. By large I mean 5 feet in diameter and 3.5 feet wide. Because of university policy, the university maintence crew was to move the magnet to its final destination. After getting it onto the service elevator, they arrived on the second floor.
From the service elevator, the magnet had to move almost the length of the building, turn a corner, and go about another twenty feet to the lab. The three men moving the magnet got it out of the elevator, and started down the hall.
Being a large heavy object, they had to push really hard to get it moving. They kept pushing really hard all the way down the hall. Not being physicists, they assumed that the magnet would stop rolling when they stoped pushing. They were quite wrong. Not only did the magnet not stop when they stopped pushing, but it didn't stop when it hit the wall of the corner room. The exterior wall of the building didn't stop it either. It came to rest embeded deep in the ground outside the lab.
It was much funnier when he told it.
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Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that. -CP
funny cyclotron joke
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rudiger
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stop me if you have heard this one.
two atoms are flying around in a cyclotron and one says to the other, "i think i lost an electron", to which the other replied, "are you sure?".
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An alien experiment that went seriously south and created a massive black hole.
Remember, kids, don't try this at home!
This is what seems to be a very cool application of putting old equipment to good work. And hey, if it turns out that it doesn't work, he has a cheep and effective form of birth control...
*shudders* Me thinks of the advertisments for DIY permenant birth control... =O
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. -Thackeray, William
Anyone else happen to have a 4600 lb. magnet lying around?
Yes, I keep it right here, next to my server backup tapes.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
Now I can really get Spiderman by trapping him in another dimension! Mwhwhahahahha.
Question is, what are they going to do with it? :P
Same thing any good physicist does -- try to take over the world!
This post was generated by a Cadre of Uber Monkeys for Monkey-Man2000 (603495).
Ray: "You know, it just occured to me that we really haven't had a successful test of this equipment."
Egon: "I blame myself."
Peter: "So do I."
Ray: "Well, no sense in worrying about it now."
Peter: "Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back."
--"You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think."
We better not let terrorists get ahold of the protons; after all all nuclear weapons are made of them!
Then again I know I wouldn't want -any- of my friends that are even remotely intelligent (and even less those that are not intelligent) to be messing with particle acceleration...
"Mom.... You did say you wanted a skylight didn't you?"
These amateur experiments are very impressive but I'm always worried that the lack of safety guidance will lead imitators into trouble. For example, with this equipment there are potential safety issues if the experiment is replicated in the southern hemisphere.
In the southern hemisphere or, more specifically, south of the topic of Capricorn, the particles will need to spin the other way.
This can be achieved in many ways; none of which were mentioned in the original article.
For example;
1) Turn the equipment upside down.
2) Use magnets of opposite polarity.
3) Use anti-protons instead of protons,
Just one of these needs to be done to transofrm a southern cyclotron from a deathtrap into a fun and safe piece of equipment.
Ban aluminum?
Curses, "foiled" again!
"Question is, what are they going to do with it?"
PROFIT!
I am in high school and very interested in physics and it would be an awsome project to work on something like this.
Where have I heard this type of thing before?
You may think this is the ultimate chick "magnet," but personally, I think that even if fusion reactors only get a second place in the science fair these days, you should try to build a Tokomak. There's just something sexy about how they look.
After the fair, no matter how you do, you can take a promising date to see it, dim the lights and crank it up and see if sub-nuclear particles are all that get excited. Who knows, maybe you'll finally discover the joys of practical applications for combinatorial physics, where books have only given you theories to feed your fantasies...
(moderators: please don't "nuke" me too badly on this one)
Get off my launchpad!
Erm... the average person can't work a VCR let alone build a cyclotron... hell they probalby think a cyclotron is one of those exercise bikes from the shopping channel.
Now that's a real friend..someone who helps you build your own cyclotron.
When I was in school, one of my professors (the guy who's work is talked about in this /. article) told me this story about a large magnet. Keep in mind, I'm recalling this from memory, and I was in college when it was told to me. Therefore, it is an approximation of the actual events that took place.
A large cylindrical magnet was being delivered to a second floor lab. By large I mean 5 feet in diameter and 3.5 feet wide. Because of university policy, the university maintence crew was to move the magnet to its final destination. After getting it onto the service elevator, they arrived on the second floor.
From the service elevator, the magnet had to move almost the length of the building, turn a corner, and go about another twenty feet to the lab. The three men moving the magnet got it out of the elevator, and started down the hall.
Being a large heavy object, they had to push really hard to get it moving. They kept pushing really hard all the way down the hall. Not being physicists, they assumed that the magnet would stop rolling when they stoped pushing. They were quite wrong. Not only did the magnet not stop when they stopped pushing, but it didn't stop when it hit the wall of the corner room. The exterior wall of the building didn't stop it either. It came to rest embeded deep in the ground outside the lab.
It was much funnier when he told it.
Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that. -CP
stop me if you have heard this one.
:)
two atoms are flying around in a cyclotron and one says to the other, "i think i lost an electron", to which the other replied, "are you sure?".
the first atom responded "yes, i'm positve."
AHAHAHAHA GEEK HUMOUR IS FUNNY