3mm Inexpensive Chip Revolutionizes Electron Accelerators 113
AaronW writes "Scientists and engineers at the US DOE SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have developed an advanced accelerator technology smaller than a grain of rice. It is currently accelerating electrons at 300 million volts per meter with a goal of achieving 1 billion EV per meter. It could do in 100 feet what the SLAC linear accelerator does in two miles and could achieve a million more electron pulses per second. This could lead to more compact accelerators and X-ray devices."
Re:Or, another option (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Or, another option (Score:5, Funny)
Those units don't even have the same dimension, how do you propose to compare them?
Very carefully?
Re:Neutron generator (Score:4, Funny)
Give me an efficient source of neutron flux and I can stop collecting smoke detectors. I'm kidding obviously, but if this is cheaper than collecting radium watch hands we may soon have more "Nuclear boy scouts" on our hands.
On the plus side, not all neutron generators are polite enough to stop generating when you cut the power, so it might be an improvement.
Re:Positron Collider (Score:3, Funny)
Riiiiiight, because anyone in their right mind is gonna click a random link ending in .dmg... Aka, a Mac disk image file, commonly used for distributing software.
Hey, if you think that it's diseased, don't mount it. Did you skip sex ed or something?
LHC@Home (Score:2, Funny)
Why spend 8 billion Euro on something that will be in every kid's room in 5 years? I fully expect "My First Large Hadron Collider" from Fisher Price in a few years so that kids can make their own micro-singularities and find out how meaningless the "God Particle" actually is for themselves.