The load, an elegant sculpture hours in the making, nanoseconds to destroy. We’ve been working on it for days, probably.…
It’s been a hard few months on MAGPIE. Constant component breakdown, electrical failures, maintenance periods and attempting to bring on-line…
Shocks are very important in physics and engineering. They occur whenever there are large pressures involved. In plasmas, we often…
There’s been a lot of buzz about a press release from Lockheed Martin about a fusion concept they’ve been working on.…
My first canyoning trip in the Alps. We didn’t really know what we were doing, but somehow we survived.
My previous post achieved unprecedented popularity, probably due to a quirk of the Facebook newsfeed deciding it was high priority that…
Pencil refills waiting to be obliterated in a fiery maelstrom. “Dear Pilot Pen Company Ltd please tell me what you put in…
The title of this blog post is an homage to a well written and excellent book on the subject by…
Hidden Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah. Own Work. The plasmas we make on MAGPIE don’t hang around for long –…
And it’s gotta be dense, and it’s gotta to be hot, and it’s gotta glow with x-ray light.* My month…