• Construction of the world’s most powerful laser is about to start in Romania
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Works are gonna start soon in Hungary and the Czech Republic too [quote]([I]Nanowerk News[/I]) Can an intense laser rip photons into electron-positron pairs? Seeking to shed light on this burning question is the ELI ('Extreme Light Infrastructure') project, which received EUR 6 million in funding under the 'Infrastructures' Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project partners have set their sights on making ELI the first infrastructure to approach this limit - over six orders of magnitude higher than today's laser intensity. Dr Enachescu pointed out that this new and improved infrastructure will enable exploration of areas that are currently inaccessible, such as laser-matter interaction at the highest intensity level where relativistic laws may no longer suffice, and will allow research into the dynamics of electrons within atoms, molecules, plasmas and solids, up to creating particle-antiparticle pairs in vacuum.ELI is focusing on becoming a multidisciplinary platform with specialised laser, particle or radiation beam lines for a number of scientific fields including nuclear, atomic, particle, cosmology and gravitational, as well as for social sciences. The presenters also underlined the impressive knowledge perspectives the ELI-NP brings forth together with the access to the laser and gamma power and intensity, inaccessible until now, as well as the remarkable applications the Romanian ELI pillar will make possible, having a major impact upon social life, national economy and defence, medicine, radiopharmaceutical production, building tabletop accelerators, monitoring nuclear material, the effect of the radiation upon the biological samples, the dynamics of deficiencies produced after the exposure to intense neutron flows, long-lived radioactive waste treatment.[/quote] [URL]http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13387.php[/URL] The three buildings: Romania:[img]http://www.extreme-light-infrastructure.eu/images/bigimages/ELI-RO.jpg[/img] Czech Republic:[img]http://www.eli-beams.eu/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/091125_343_FINAL_cam02.jpg[/img] Hungary:[img]http://www.eli-hu.hu/uploads/File/03_ELI_madartavlat_kicsi_en.JPG[/img]
Next day, Roma have scavenged 3/4ths of the laser.
Hungary's facility looks badass.
This is actually really fucking cool
Oh yeah I forgot to put this, can't be arsed to edit the images again. [quote]Each of the three countries has a different ELI “pillar” on its territory: the city of Szeged, in Hungary, will host “Attosecond Science,” Prague, in the Czech republic, will deal with “Beam Physics (Secondary Sources),” while the Romanian capital of Bucharest will operate “Laser-induced Nuclear Physics.[/quote] So basically the HQ where all the info will be processed will be in Hungary, the huge laser will be in Romania and a smaller laser in the Czech Republic (I think, not sure about them)
beaming with excitement over here
hail our romanian-hungarian-czech overlords
This confirms my suspicion; the earth is slowly turning into the deathstar
Pretty saddened that there weren't any numbers in the article (In regards to the specs of the laser, not the ball park '1000x more powerful'). I'd love to know.
[QUOTE=Killer900;41040268]Hungary's facility looks badass.[/QUOTE] Looks like a paint ball gun if you turn it sideways.
the National Ignition Facility near me has a 500 Terawatt laser that they use to research fusion theyd have to have a really goddamn powerful laser to beat that
Lasers are cool. [B]THIS IS A FACT IS YOU DISAGREE WITH ME YOUR OPINION IS WRONG [I][U]SHUT UP.[/U][/I][/B]
Fuck yes, go Romanian homeland!
Laser induced nuclear physics, hell yeah!
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I'm glad that we're finally going to build a laser to destroy Venus. It's obstructing my view of Mercury.
why havent I even heard of this
[img]http://pnmedia.gamespy.com/screenshots/phl/10226298.jpg[/img] ?
Now watch as FIDESZ closes down the Hungarian side of things for messing with god's plan or some such bullshit. I am always vaguely horrified when I hear about Fidesz from my girlfriend (She's Hungarian)
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My country is doing something scientific again!? wooooo
That will take care of their vampire problem.
"Ah ha! Now they will have to let us in to Britain"
I should ask my dad if he heard of this, hes back home in romania now. Totally didn't expect something like this coming out of there
[QUOTE=JXZ;41040447]hail our romanian-hungarian-czech overlords[/QUOTE] Actually EU is afraid it might break physics and make a country sized crater, that's why they let us, the less important countries, house the experiment :v: (no)
[QUOTE=dunkace;41046691]"Ah ha! Now they will have to let us in to Britain"[/QUOTE] Really funny. :| Aw hell yeah, go Romania. <3
[t]http://i.imgur.com/FU6nTry.jpg[/t] fuckin romania
I honestly didn't expect this at all
But the question remains: can we use it to [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rthHSISkM7A]make a house's windows and doors blow out by popping a massive volume of popcorn?[/url]
I was expecting this to be under CERN's jurisdiction, either lasers and antimatter. A combination of champions.
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