World's Most Powerful X-ray Machine

After years of design and construction, the world's brightest X-ray machine has come to life at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in the hills near Stanford University. The mile-long machine produces a probing laser beam made of X-rays instead of visible light. Its laser bursts are so bright and so brief that researchers will use them as an ultrafast stop-motion camera to capture the minute details of things previously unseen, such as the arrangement of atoms in metals, semiconductors, ceramics, polymers and proteins.

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[reference2me]

We need more of this kind of information about what is going on in reasearch at universaries ... I doubt that most students at Stanford know what Stanford research is doing...

[dlacc187]

lmao...its the architect of the matrix @ 2:08!!!!

[happinesson]

more advance work on XRAY..more contribution to the medical industry!

[mayarhyner]

keep the good work up.

[WilsonSteinberg]

It look like a bunch of electric machine. Who can use it? A hand of people. So don't say it's good for the world. Thumbs up for my simple deduction.

[Bradslant37]

im stuck in nz

[DrMario2007baka]

Good! I like to hear more of wonderful things to do with that laser! X-ray laser is the thing I'm keenly interested in: You can make a back-image microscope with that, reflecting back the image of Aluminum atoms in foil to the scintillator plate or high-grain Silicon imaging CCD. Experiments will lead you, ManifestMiasma, and the others into interesting paths, I assure you.

[tutorialconr]

@ManifestMiasma Well , thanks ! I'd love to be in Stanford University. I'm from India and I'm already preparing. Thanks ! :D

[ManifestMiasma]

@tutorialconr Keep studying and working hard and you can be part of the very bright future (pun intended) that lies ahead for particle physics and astrophysics!

[ManifestMiasma]

@DrMario2007baka Not any more. The LCLS XFEL is now the most powerful xray machine in the world. We just ran our first high energy xray experiments this week!