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.…
Shocks are very important in physics and engineering. They occur whenever there are large pressures involved. In plasmas, we often…
My previous post achieved unprecedented popularity, probably due to a quirk of the Facebook newsfeed deciding it was high priority that…
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…