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XFEL: Brilliant X-ray laser comes online

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    XFEL: Brilliant X-ray laser comes online

    Pretty cool...

    One of the most powerful X-ray machines ever built has officially opened in the German city of Hamburg.

    The facility, which has cost more than a billion euros to build, will be used to study the detailed structure of matter, atom by atom.

    It is called the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL).

    Scientists say the way it shines light on targets will permit, for example, chemical bonds to be filmed in the instant that they are made or broken.

    Hamburg
    XFEL
    The electrons are produced under Hamburg and are injected into the machine to produce an X-ray beam that is received at Schenefeld
    The researchers anticipate fundamental discoveries that lead to new medical treatments and novel materials, to name just two possibilities.

    The XFEL will begin operations with 11 nations as members of its consortium.

    Britain, which has supplied equipment to the facility, is expected to sign commitment papers to join the group before the end of the year.

    Prof Robert Feidenhans'l is the MD of the non-profit company established to run the facility.

    "It's a fantastic and exciting day for us to open the European XFEL for operation after more than eight years of construction," he told Friday's inauguration ceremony.

    "I now declare we are ready to take data; we are ready to meet the challenge of getting groundbreaking results."

    The machine is a superconducting linear accelerator that is housed in a 3.4km-long tunnel complex some 40m beneath Hamburg and the nearby town of Schenefeld.
    source: XFEL: Brilliant X-ray laser comes online - BBC News
    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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    Can they see the workings of your brain at that level? Or is it too small?
    First Law of Contracting: Only the strong survive

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      #3
      Originally posted by _V_ View Post
      Or is it too small?
      What, his brain, or the laser?

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        #4
        Originally posted by _V_ View Post
        Can they see the workings of your brain at that level? Or is it too small?

        There's so much knowledge in my noggin only a machine this powerful could read it.
        "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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          #5
          so do we get to take that with us as part of the divorce?

          Lets leave Barmy & Juncket with just the clothes on their back!
          Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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            #6
            Originally posted by vetran View Post
            so do we get to take that with us as part of the divorce?

            Lets leave Barmy & Juncket with just the clothes on their back!

            No. Brexiters have given up on reason, ergo science. Anyway it is too complicated. Same goes for the ITER fusion demonstration fusion reactor.

            "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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              #7
              Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
              There's so much knowledge in my noggin only a machine this powerful could read it.
              Course there is, pal...now, try and relax...

              "Nurse! This one needs his meds - and give him a higher dose this time..."
              His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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                #8
                Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
                No. Brexiters have given up on reason, ergo science. Anyway it is too complicated. Same goes for the ITER fusion demonstration fusion reactor.

                oh project fear again!
                Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by vetran View Post
                  oh project fear again!
                  This is project reality - fear was yesterday.

                  "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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