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Pictorial Tour of World's Longest Linear Accelerator

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the always-with-the-measuring-contest dept.

Wired has a great pictorial tour of their recent visit to Stanford University's linear accelerator, the longest in the world. The accelerator has been the vehicle upon which three Nobel Prizes were earned and a the next big project will boast an electron laser roughly 10 billion times more powerful than existing x-ray sources.

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  1. Cool now I can see how accurate my story is by An+dochasac · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I interviewed for a job once at SLAC, but barely remember enough of it to know if the beginnings of my my short story featuring SLAC are vaguely accurate. It seems that they were using Amiga computers when I was there and searching for the W particle.

    I don't know, I suppose it is the 0 dimensional particle thought to exist at the core of Bush's brain?