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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. Re:OK, we've got -part- of it by Constantine+XVI · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As soon as we have the sharks with the frickin' laser beams on their frickin' heads

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