Scientists Create World's First Atomic X-Ray Laser 145
New submitter newmission33 writes "Government researchers have created the fastest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, and have fulfilled a 1967 prediction that an atomic scale X-ray laser could be made in the same manner as visible-light lasers, according to a statement released Wednesday. Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used the Linac Coherent Light Source to aim a powerful X-ray source beam, a billion times brighter than any previous source, at a capsule of neon gas and triggered an 'avalanche' of X-ray emissions to become the world's first 'atomic X-ray laser.'"
1950s buzzword salad (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Quick! Get the LASER! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:1950s buzzword salad (Score:4, Funny)
We are LIVING in the FUTURE, people! Now we can have x-rays of sharks with x-ray lasers strapped to their fricken heads.
Re:1950s buzzword salad (Score:5, Funny)
"Nylon"
Re:is an xray pump laser truly needed? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:is an xray pump laser truly needed? (Score:5, Funny)
"A laser is coherent light? So it talks?"
More intelligently than many of the threads on Slashdot.
Re:This (Score:5, Funny)
You probably can't get much more detail than that; the detail doesn't exist.
You just have to Zoom, then Enhance.
Re:Burning question (Score:4, Funny)
The main X-ray laser is about a mile long. We are working on breeding bigger sharks......
Please do not look into the atomic x-ray laser (Score:2, Funny)
WARNING: Do not look into the atomic x-ray laser with remaining head.
Re:Death ray (Score:4, Funny)
Hmmm. Meant to publish that anonymously. Whoopsie. Hope I never run for office.