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Z Machine Sets Unexpected Earth Temperature Record


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#85199 by @ 14.03.2006 00:00 - nach oben -
Z Machine Sets Unexpected Earth Temperature Record

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.

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#85200 by @ 14.03.2006 00:13 - nach oben -
voll ross
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#85204 by @ 14.03.2006 07:29 - nach oben -
die maschine gseht jo andersch geil us! und dä strom wo die brucht, traumhaft!
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#85205 by @ 14.03.2006 08:51 - nach oben -
hlz ä "Z" maschinä , traumhaft
zorg.ch
#85745 by @ 15.04.2006 00:39 - nach oben -
materialie bi 80 miliarde kelvin teschte, ähä
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#85752 by @ 15.04.2006 11:57 - nach oben -
two billion kelvin wäred denn zwo milliarde

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

es heg eifach für die churz zit 80 mol soviel energie gfresse wie de normal welt-stromverbruch
zorg.ch
#85757 by @ 15.04.2006 13:00, edited @ 15.04.2006 13:01 - nach oben -
erzuegt, sedi

bzw. freigsetzt. isch korrekter.
zorg.ch
#85758 by @ 15.04.2006 13:28 - nach oben -
ups. jo wär nöd guet möglich andersch.
zorg.ch
#85762 by @ 15.04.2006 18:59 - nach oben -
da heben sie aber noch ne grosses wiederständchen gebraucht um das zu verheizen...
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#85226 by @ 14.03.2006 19:54 - nach oben -
heiz-chnid
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#85228 by @ 14.03.2006 23:03 - nach oben -
:)