In my last blog post I discussed measuring the temperature of a plasma. I talked about firing an intense laser…
Plasmas tend to be quite hot. This is because they consist of electrons and ions, which are strongly attracted to…
I’ve already done some preliminary experiments on passing a large electrical current through some pencil leads to turn them into…
Part 2 follows on from my previous post about how the intense electromagnetic pulse is generated. In this post I…
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…