Scientists create 3.6 billion degree plasma ... by accident

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What do you need 3.6 billion degrees for? What is it used for?

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Did you even read the article?

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Yes and I do not recall it telling me what it is used for?

[Stu Pidasso]

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Yes and I do not recall it telling me what it is used for?

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Thier thinking that they could possibly use it to toast bread.

Stu

[BCPVP]

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What do you need 3.6 billion degrees for? What is it used for?

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The Z machine is the largest X-ray generator in the world. It’s designed to test materials under extreme temperatures and pressures. It works by releasing 20 million amps of electricity into a vertical array of very fine tungsten wires. The wires dissolve into a cloud of charged particles, a superheated gas called plasma.

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The 3.6 billion seems to be an accident, not something they were planning on doing something with.

Smarter men than I can probably figure out something cool to do with 3.6 billion degrees.

[8Tdiamonds]

"Why didnt the machine melt? what can withstand 3,600,000,000 degrees F?"

asbestos roaches and fruitcake

[twoblacknines]

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I don't know why, but I find it disconcerting that something man made can be created in a lab that is hotter than a [censored] star.

Does anyone know if it's possible we might one day create something in a lab that could escape our control and destroy the entire planet? Just curious.

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Lestat,
it's already been done. Nuclear weapons. It's only a matter of time before man destroys the 3rd planet.

[AquaSwing]

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What do you need 3.6 billion degrees for? What is it used for?

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The Z machine is the largest X-ray generator in the world. It’s designed to test materials under extreme temperatures and pressures. It works by releasing 20 million amps of electricity into a vertical array of very fine tungsten wires. The wires dissolve into a cloud of charged particles, a superheated gas called plasma.

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The 3.6 billion seems to be an accident, not something they were planning on doing something with.

Smarter men than I can probably figure out something cool to do with 3.6 billion degrees.

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You can make toast awfully fast, along the lines of .000013 seconds.

[BCPVP]

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What do you need 3.6 billion degrees for? What is it used for?

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The Z machine is the largest X-ray generator in the world. It’s designed to test materials under extreme temperatures and pressures. It works by releasing 20 million amps of electricity into a vertical array of very fine tungsten wires. The wires dissolve into a cloud of charged particles, a superheated gas called plasma.

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The 3.6 billion seems to be an accident, not something they were planning on doing something with.

Smarter men than I can probably figure out something cool to do with 3.6 billion degrees.

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You can make toast awfully fast, along the lines of .000013 seconds.

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Screw toast. I want to know how long it'd take for marshmallows. How long does the stick need to be so I don't melt like the people from the first Indiana Jones?

[MrMon]

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It sucks that everything in our world is designed for like 20V and Home Depot doesn't sell voltage multipliers

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Ummm, yeah, like transformers are really hard to make. Build one with a 1:20 coil ratio and you've got your 2400 volts. Not much amperage, but you've got 2400 volts.

[KeysrSoze]

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I don't know why, but I find it disconcerting that something man made can be created in a lab that is hotter than a [censored] star.

Does anyone know if it's possible we might one day create something in a lab that could escape our control and destroy the entire planet? Just curious.

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Theres a hypothesis people have put forward that once an intelligent society reaches a certain level of technology and understanding, some kind of energy source becomes theoretically obvious to them, except it doesn't do what they think it will and it supernovaes their star or something equally disastrous when they flip the switch. This has happened countless times, and is why we see no technologically advanced life out there. Just a few more years until we run out of oil and get our Ice-9 or omega energy on, oh boy!

[MatthewRyan]

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I don't know why, but I find it disconcerting that something man made can be created in a lab that is hotter than a [censored] star.

Does anyone know if it's possible we might one day create something in a lab that could escape our control and destroy the entire planet? Just curious.

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Theres a hypothesis people have put forward that once an intelligent society reaches a certain level of technology and understanding, some kind of energy source becomes theoretically obvious to them, except it doesn't do what they think it will and it supernovaes their star or something equally disastrous when they flip the switch. This has happened countless times, and is why we see no technologically advanced life out there. Just a few more years until we run out of oil and get our Ice-9 or omega energy on, oh boy!

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Are you talking about the point at which a civilization tries become a Type I on the Kardashev scale?