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Author: Jack Hare

Firing MAGPIE, part 1

December 17, 2014 Jack Hare Leave a comment

The load, an elegant sculpture hours in the making, nanoseconds to destroy. We’ve been working on it for days, probably.…

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Posted in: Laboratory Astrophysics Filed under: get your science on, High Voltage, magpie, my work, oily, photos of machines, pulsed power

Sparging for fun and profit

December 4, 2014 Jack Hare Leave a comment

It’s been a hard few months on MAGPIE. Constant component breakdown, electrical failures, maintenance periods and attempting to bring on-line…

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Posted in: Laboratory Astrophysics Filed under: High Voltage, magpie, pulsed power, sparge, sparging, transformer oil, you sparge we sparge she sparges

Shock waves for heating and compressing

December 3, 2014 Jack Hare Leave a comment

Shocks are very important in physics and engineering. They occur whenever there are large pressures involved. In plasmas, we often…

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Posted in: Laboratory Astrophysics Filed under: magpie, my work, plasma, shock waves, shocks

Is the Lockheed Martin Fusion Reactor Actually New?

October 16, 2014 Jack Hare Leave a comment

There’s been a lot of buzz about a press release from Lockheed Martin about a fusion concept they’ve been working on.…

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Posted in: Laboratory Astrophysics Filed under: cfr, fusion reactor, lockheed martin, plasma

Canyoning in Como and Ticino

September 6, 2014 Jack Hare Leave a comment

My first canyoning trip in the Alps. We didn’t really know what we were doing, but somehow we survived.

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Posted in: Canyoning Filed under: canyoning, longer trip, Ticino

What’s in a pencil lead? (Part II)

August 20, 2014 Jack Hare Leave a comment

My previous post achieved unprecedented popularity, probably due to a quirk of the Facebook newsfeed deciding it was high priority that…

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Posted in: Laboratory Astrophysics Filed under: experimental physics, my work, no plasma :(, pencil leads, plasma

What’s in a pencil lead?

August 13, 2014 Jack Hare Leave a comment

Pencil refills waiting to be obliterated in a fiery maelstrom. “Dear Pilot Pen Company Ltd please tell me what you put in…

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Posted in: Laboratory Astrophysics Filed under: does pilot have a presence on tumblr I wonder, letter writing skills, long shot, pilot, pilot pen

The Natural Focusing of Light

July 29, 2014 Jack Hare Leave a comment

The title of this blog post is an homage to a well written and excellent book on the subject by…

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Posted in: Laboratory Astrophysics Filed under: ...with LASERS!, caustics, my work, plasma, shadowgraphy

Flash photography…with LASERS

July 26, 2014 Jack Hare Leave a comment

Hidden Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah. Own Work. The plasmas we make on MAGPIE don’t hang around for long –…

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Posted in: Laboratory Astrophysics Filed under: ...with LASERS!, caustics, lasers, magpie, my work, photography, plasma, sneaky fish

I Need a Plasma

July 21, 2014 Jack Hare Leave a comment

And it’s gotta be dense, and it’s gotta to be hot, and it’s gotta glow with x-ray light.* My month…

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Posted in: Laboratory Astrophysics Filed under: flanders and swann, my work, ohmic heating, plasma, shadowgraphy

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