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Germany Unveils World's Most Powerful X-Ray Laser (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The world's most powerful X-ray laser has begun operating at a facility where scientists will attempt to recreate the conditions deep inside the sun and produce film-like sequences of viruses and cells. The machine, called the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL), acts as a high-speed camera that can capture images of individual atoms in a few millionths of a billionth of a second. Unlike a conventional camera, though, everything imaged by the X-ray laser is obliterated -- its beam is 100 times more intense than if all the sunlight hitting the Earth's surface were focused onto a single thumbnail. The facility near Hamburg, housed in a series of tunnels up to 38 meters underground, will allow scientists to explore the architecture of viruses and cells, create jittery films of chemical reactions as they unfold and replicate conditions deep within stars and planets.
XFEL is the world's third major X-ray laser facility -- projects in Japan and the U.S. have already spawned major advances in structural biology and materials science. The European beam is more powerful, but most significantly has a far higher pulse rate than either of its predecessors. "They can send 100 pulses out per second, we can send 27,000," said Robert Feidenhan'l, chairman of the European XFEL management board. This matters because to study chemical reactions or biological processes, the X-ray strobe is used to capture flickering snapshots of the same system at different time-points that can be stitched together into a film sequence.
XFEL is the world's third major X-ray laser facility -- projects in Japan and the U.S. have already spawned major advances in structural biology and materials science. The European beam is more powerful, but most significantly has a far higher pulse rate than either of its predecessors. "They can send 100 pulses out per second, we can send 27,000," said Robert Feidenhan'l, chairman of the European XFEL management board. This matters because to study chemical reactions or biological processes, the X-ray strobe is used to capture flickering snapshots of the same system at different time-points that can be stitched together into a film sequence.
The bigots in Germany and in the rest of the EU will find a way to turn this laser against Muslim refugees. It's amazing just how much hatred in Europe is directed toward the refugees who just want a better life than n their war-torn country. Unfortunately, Germany and the rest of the EU are full of bigots, who will look for ways to turn this against Muslim refugees.
This post is worthless without a shark.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Is it a laser or is it a camera? I don't want sharks with frickin' cameras attached to their heads.
I expect you to die!
Have gnu, will travel.
For the resurgence of animated gifs!
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"They can send 100 pulses out per second, we can send 27,000," said Robert Feidenhan'l, chairman of the European XFEL management board. This matters because to study chemical reactions or biological processes, the X-ray strobe is used to capture flickering snapshots of the same system at different time-points that can be stitched together into a film sequence.
I'm assuming for biological and chemical processes it's used similar to femtosecond laser video photography where completely different trials are filmed at ever so slightly different times and angles on the same setup so as to create the illusion of a time sequence of a single event over a sizable area.
to u.s. border crossings and airport security check points.
truck scanning.
... "They can send 100 pulses out per second, we can send 27,000," said Robert Feidenhan'l ...
Before long, the Chinese gonna come out with one that can pulse 28,000 per second, followed by the Indians' 300,000 pulse per second entry
That's not the end, thougk, because the moslems gonna rushing in to decapitate all the scientists while yelling "kakaku-kaka"
"its beam is 100 times more intense than if all the sunlight hitting the Earth's surface were focused onto a single thumbnail." OK I'll TALK!
I came here to ask, who comes up with a simile like that?
If it vaporizes the sample at a point in time, how does the image get created. The second part i think i get it. Thousands of samples are zapped and hope that the reactions are caught at different stages. The gif is not of a same entity(atom) but of different entities at different stages of reaction.
It's MASER (Microwave Amplification Stimulated by Emissions of Radiation) and not LASER.
slashdot: A failed experiment.
on the Muslims.
Next they'll be demanding ONE MILLION dollars from the rest of us.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Not the Libyans!
but the shark must be huge!
I'll have to go read "Footfall" again. They used fission bomb-pumped x-ray lasers to blat the invaders' space craft.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
Scientist: Hmmm, I wonder if it can make a hole in that thing over there!
...rright away vith his powerrful new x-rray machine.
can you make it into a pistol so I can zap wasp at 10 passes??
What the #~]@# ... It's an international project. Funding it a bit more than Rusia doesn't make it german.