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Physicists Have Created the Brightest Light Ever Recorded (vice.com)
Jason Koebler writes: A group of physicists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Extreme Light Laboratory announced Monday that they have created the brightest light ever produced on Earth using Diocles, one of the most powerful lasers in the United States. When this high intensity laser pulse, which is one billion times brighter than the surface of the sun, strikes the electron, it causes it to behave differently. By firing this laser at individual electrons, the researchers found that past a certain threshold, the brightness of light will actually change an object's appearance rather than simply making it brighter. The x-rays that are produced in this fashion have an extremely high amount of energy, and Umstadter and his colleagues think this could end up being applied in a number of ways. For starters, it could allow doctors to produce x-ray medical images on the nanoscale, which would allow them to detect tumors and other anomalies that regular x-rays might have missed. Moreover, it could also be used for more sophisticated x-ray scanning at airports and other security checkpoints.
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it could allow doctors to produce x-ray medical images on the nanoscale
However, researchers are still trying to overcome the slight technical difficulty of the patient being vaporized in the process.
The money paid to UNL by athletics isn't a donation or a gift. They're paying for use of UNL facilities and services. The athletic department is profitable, but those profits aren't being used to improve academics. Besides, something is very wrong when the highest paid state employee is head football coach Mike Riley instead of someone like the governor or a university president. UNL is by far the weakest academic institution in the Big Ten. Instead of becoming more selective with their admissions criteria, they're lowering their standards to increase enrollment. I get it that athletics is a separate pool of money from academics, but the optics are horrible when you're renovating the football stadium while academics are being cut.
So your complaints are that they are profitable and pay for all services rendered by the University (including scholarships for their athletes), but they are raising outside funds for a new stadium at zero cost to the University (in actuality, it will be a financial win for the University as it will receive even more payments and enhanced sales tax revenue which goes to fund higher education). Got it. It's the "optics" that matter, not the actual actions.
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Physicists Have Created the Brightest Light Ever Recorded