Heliotron magnetic field containment device
August 1st, 02008 by Alexander Rose
An incredible photo (click for a really large version) of the Large Helical Device in Japan built to test plasma fusion confinement. Translation: This is the beginning of what you need to have your own little star right here on planet earth… Without actually making our little blue marble into a star. More on the project here. I post it here just because it is a gorgeous implementation of purpose driven design built at a massive scale.
August 1st, 2008 at 8:24 am
Beautiful!
Sort of relatedly, The Big Picture (Boston.com’s blog of, well, big pictures) just ran a series of 27 beautiful (and big) pictures of the Large Hadron Collider:
http://bit.ly/4uFmTY
The complexity, enormity, and beauty is fairly staggering.
August 5th, 2008 at 3:09 am
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September 4th, 2008 at 9:29 am
This picture seems right out of a Ridley Scott sci-fi movie.
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