This explanation & picture is taken directly from astronomy picture of the day archive for march13.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
It looks like something straight out of doom 3 I cant believe people are actually doing stuff like this
Explanation: Why is this plasma so hot? Physicists aren't sure. What is known for sure is that the Z Machine
running at Sandia National Laboratories created a plasma that was unexpectedly hot. The plasma reached
a temperature in excess of two billion Kelvin, making it arguably the hottest human made thing ever in the
history of the Earth and, for a brief time, hotter than the interiors of stars. The Z Machine experiment, pictured above,
purposely creates high temperatures by focusing 20 million amps of electricity into a small region further confined
by a magnetic field. Vertical wires give the Z Machine its name. During the unexpected powerful contained explosion,
the Z machine released about 80 times the world's entire electrical power usage for a brief fraction of a second. Experiments
with the Z Machine are helping to explain the physics of Solar flares, design more efficient nuclear fusion plants, test
materials under extreme heat, and gather data for the computer modeling of nuclear explosions.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0603/zmachine_sandia_big.jpg
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
It looks like something straight out of doom 3 I cant believe people are actually doing stuff like this
Explanation: Why is this plasma so hot? Physicists aren't sure. What is known for sure is that the Z Machine
running at Sandia National Laboratories created a plasma that was unexpectedly hot. The plasma reached
a temperature in excess of two billion Kelvin, making it arguably the hottest human made thing ever in the
history of the Earth and, for a brief time, hotter than the interiors of stars. The Z Machine experiment, pictured above,
purposely creates high temperatures by focusing 20 million amps of electricity into a small region further confined
by a magnetic field. Vertical wires give the Z Machine its name. During the unexpected powerful contained explosion,
the Z machine released about 80 times the world's entire electrical power usage for a brief fraction of a second. Experiments
with the Z Machine are helping to explain the physics of Solar flares, design more efficient nuclear fusion plants, test
materials under extreme heat, and gather data for the computer modeling of nuclear explosions.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0603/zmachine_sandia_big.jpg
It's a big step forward, I think... let's see what they can work out from this! (Hopefully not another weapon, as it always happened...)
It's a wonder how they 