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World's smallest particle accelerator is 54 million times smaller than the Large Hadron Collider, and it works (www.livescience.com)

submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/physics@mander.xyz

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[–] Treczoks@lemm.ee 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Well, it is a million times smaller and a million times weaker. It accelerates from 28 to 40keV. So it a) already needs a pre-accelerator as input, and b) just adds about 35% to it.

Your run-of-the-mill CRT back in the times was an eccelerator, too, with something like 10keV, btw.

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

the fact that the shooty fat ass boy worked at all was a miracle

[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

I thought at first you meant 28eV to 40keV and thought that's pretty impressive.

Not that I know the implications of either.