Let’s talk about states of matter. You know your states of matter don’t you? We have solids, liquids and gasses, and plasmas, quark-gluon plasmas, nuclear matter, bose-einstein condensates, neutronium,... continue reading
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From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 55 views • 26:02https://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading
posted by eric3579 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 930 views • 7:59Red sprites, secondary jets and newly discovered green afterglow called "ghosts" triggered by red sprites. A dozen vibrant red sprites were recorded on this evening and only two events had the green afterglow.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 9 months ago • 984 views • 2:32From Youtube, "The sun. Smooth and round and peaceful. Except when it suddenly vomits radiation and plasma in random directions. These solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs can hit earth and... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 135 views • 9:43Writing in the Geophysical Research Letters, NASA says a review of Voyager 2’s old data from 1986 showed that Uranus vented a giant blob of gas into space. This pocket of ionized gas, a plasma structure... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 12 months ago • 1,135 views • 6:40YouTube description: A bisected grape in the microwave makes plasma. But how does it work? A grape is the right size and refractive index to trap microwaves inside it. When you place two (or two halves)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 732 views • 8:16After trying to blow up a watermelon with a smaller capacitor, my friend coyt brought over 4 capacitors rated at 20kv and 25uf each. They came from a lab that used to them to simulate the effects of lightning... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 400 views • 6:09YouTube: May 23rd, 1967 could have been the beginning of the end - all thanks to the sun.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 175 views • 4:34This is a really nice demonstration, and explanation of, what happens when you drop a magnet down a conducting non-magnetic tube. YouTube Description: Huge thanks to the Royal Institution, Professor... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 3 months 3 weeks ago • 228 views • 3:50Researcher Ceri Brenner uses the Vulcan laser, a Petawatt Laser at the STFC's Central Laser Facility to create tiny balls of plasma for physics research. Relax and enjoy an education in laser based physics... continue reading
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