Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Gravity check

In Neofronteras (sorry, only in spanish, but translation available through Babelfish, and it's worth it) they explain an experiment published in Physical Review Letters 98, 021101 (2007) related to check the validity of the gravity force in a small distance (56 um), and it still remains valid. Good news I guess :P

Still waiting for the starting in November 2007 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator in Switzerland, which will be able to run experiments checking the validity of the String Theory (and talking about that, check The Elegant Universe documentary about it, its free online in the BBC website).

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Thursday, January 18, 2007

IAP Coda meeting


And some more pictures, now from these crowded IAP closing event...

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TONA Christmas dinner 2006


With almost one month delay due to holidays and lazyness, here they are finally the pictures of our christmas dinner (Iñigo's and Thomas' cameras). Hope you like them!

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Inside the DIII-D nuclear fusion reactor

Scientific American magazine takes a tour inside the DIII-D nuclear fusion reactor which is the largest magnetic fusion facility in the U.S.


DIII-D is the name of a tokamak machine developed in the 1980s by General Atomics in San Diego, USA, as part of the ongoing effort to achieve magnetically confined fusion. DIII-D pioneered new technology including the use of beams of neutral particles to penetrate the confinement field of the device and heat the plasma within.

video here

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