The MAGPIE chamber, on the upper floor of MAGPIE. It’s surrounded by diagnostic equipment – lenses and mirrors for the…
Upper floor of MAGPIE. This is part science, part workshop. The chamber is in the centre of the room.
Photos from the ground floor of MAGPIE. This level is mostly concerned with engineering – there is a thin layer…
No pictures this time! The abstract is for the International Conference on the Physics of Shocks (ICOPS), in Washington DC,…
I talked previously wrote about trying to photo-ionise a gas using the x-rays from a wire array z-pinch. The cylinder…
You’ve probably tried to capture the perfect photo of someone running or jumping, only to miss the action by a…
Today I’m going to write about coherence and incoherence in waves. Imagine the ripples on the water that come from…
In a previous post I discussed the two major approaches to achieving a fusion reaction – either by using strong…
When I accused the Sun of cheating, I referred to the two main ways of attempting nuclear fusion: either using…
At the energies necessary for fusion to take place, matter is usually in the plasma state – negatively charged electrons…