#PARTICLE ACCELERATOR

[jareckiworld]

Julia Curyło — LHC, Genesis (oil on canvas & aluminium and plastic frame, 2011)

[thebat-musicman]

didnt this shit kill baymax

[science70]

Lower magnet sectors being assembled in the cyclotron vault of the TRIUMF particle accelerator, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1971.

[ultrakill-shitposts]

how to make your own particle accelerator

EDIT: I've figured out that this works regardless of the angle you point at, you just have to shoot at the front of the idol (obviously).

( @nokti-jpeg Since you asked for it, here you go! )

[chaoticbrainperson]

There is a twitch channel by a German particle accelerator project called "wave_hamburg", that is streaming the Taylor Swift Eras Tour in Hamburg via the vibrations their instruments pick up from cheering Swifties in the stadium 2km away. 😃😃😃

This might be the nerdiest way to watch the Eras Tour and I'm in love 😂🥰

Basically, at this institute called DESY, they are running an extremely high energy and high precision X-ray gun at a project called Petra. They normally use this to identify the molecular structure of stuff. (They were one of the first groups who figured out the structure of the SARS-CoV-2 virus 😃). And because they are dealing with this super high precision thing, they actually have to account for stuff like scientists walking around in the building or cars driving by, so they have this extremely sensitive network of instruments that is just there to pick up the tiniest vibrations. And that's sensitive enough, to pick up on the vibrations of Swifties cheering in the stadium 2 kilometres away. 😃

[uchicagomagazine]

The Accelerator Building has been home to feats of nuclear science since its construction nearly 80 years ago, and this year it will make way for a new engineering and science facility. Revisit the machines it was built to house.

Photos: @uchicagoscrc and Everett Collection

[sergeant-macho-nacho]

One of CERNs plasma wakefield accelerators.

[aztrosist666]

Außerordentlichehochgeschwindigkeitselektronenentwickelndesschwerarbeitsbeigollitron is a beautiful name for a baby girl

[todaysdocument]

East tangent tank inner radius. Photograph taken December 14 1953. Bevatron-635

Record Group 434: General Records of the Department of EnergySeries: Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

This black and white photograph shows a technician working on a large particle accelerator.  There are many pipes and ductwork running from the machine.  The accelerator is made of metal and rising about 20 feet high.

[zi-olan]

any time i hear about some advancement or discovery in physics, whether it's astronomical or subatomic, im struck by this sense that, despite all our technological progress, our methods for figuring that stuff out has not changed much in the past two or three million years: "let's hit these two rocks together, i wanna see what happens"

[jareckiworld]

Julia Curyło — LHC, Judgement  (oil on canvas & aluminium frame, 2011)

[dougielombax]

Alright! Fine!

Here!

That’s $500 billion!

Go play with a particle accelerator!

[piccolopapichulo]

[beardedmrbean]

[daily-public-domain]

I’m back !!

Day 87: Cyclotron with glowing beam

link

–This image is part of the public domain, meaning you can do anything you want with it ! (you could even sell it as a shirt, poster or whatever)–

[uchicagomagazine]

Construction of the Accelerator Building’s $2.2 million synchrocyclotron was completed in 1951. A kind of cyclotron, this “atom smasher” uses a magnetic field to accelerate subatomic particles to high energies. Over 2,000 tons of steel were used for the particle accelerator’s magnet alone.

Photography by Sarra, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf2-00110, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library @uchicagoscrc