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The magnetic chamber of a plasma fusion reactor at MIT

The Alcator C-Mod Tokamak

For 40 years MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) has been
exploring nuclear fusion as a source of energy through a series of
tokamaks. The C-Mod is the third in a series of Alcator tokamaks
developed at MIT since the 1960s. Characterized by a donut-shaped
vacuum chamber wrapped in high-field magnets, the Alcator approach makes
it possible to produce very dense and well-confined plasmas in a
relatively compact device. (The name “Alcator” comes from alto campo
torus = high field torus.) Its metal (molybdenum) walls can accommodate high power
densities. Alcator C-Mod has made significant contributions to the world
fusion program in the areas of plasma heating, stability, and
confinement of high field tokamaks.Alcator C-Mod is the only tokamak in the world operating at and above
the ITER design magnetic field and plasma densities, and it produces
the highest pressure tokamak plasma in the world, approaching pressures
expected in ITER.

Fusing atoms make a very loud and very eerie sound.

Image source & credit: Dave Mosher/Tech Insider

did-you-kno:

Ever since the collision, the gravity at the center of the galaxy has been trying to put things back together again.

If you look closely, you can see the strings of material trying to form a spiral structure.

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archiemcphee:

Here’s an awesome science experiment if you’ve got just the right supplies to hand: Take 43 beakers and fill them each with just enough fluid to create specific musical notes, and then line them up in a row. Then take 43 people with exceptionally good aim, dress them in matching glasses and lab coats, give them each a silver coin, and then line them up in a row across from the beakers. Have them each toss their coins, one immediately after the other, so that each coin lands in its corresponding beaker.

Congratulations, you’ve just created the “World’s fastest coin-toss orchestra of 43 people in extreme concentration!” That’s what the PARTY creative ageny did to promote Suntory’s concentration-enhancing drink Shuchu Regain. Played in real time, it’s two seconds of rapid coin tinkling. But when played in slow motion, those tinkling coins are each notes from Mozart’s “Minuet”:

[via Spoon & Tamago]