For more on this, look at the DAHRT project. It occurred up the hill a bit from LANSCE, in DX instead, but did similar things
Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second
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#12Pardon for the old meme here, but... "Pics, or did not happened!"?
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#13Fascinating look into the dynamic imaging capabilities at Los Alamos National Lab—essentially, how the U.S. is able to analyze nuclear-level explosive events without actually conducting nuclear tests. The Lab uses multiple systems to image these high-speed events: • pRad uses proton radiography to get 20–40 frames of a detonation, with material-level resolution based on density. • DARHT uses dual-axis x-ray imaging t…
Thank you for contextualizing this. We are truly living in a wild part of the space time continuum.
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#14Re: Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second
#15Wow, this is wild. billionths of a second?!
"Millionths", abbreviated "mths of a second" here for... reasons...
Known to the entire world, including American STEM people, as a microsecond.
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#16Every time I read about one of the national labs doing this research, I wonder how much longer we will head about these. I feel fairly positive that DOGE's layoffs and budget cuts mean this output will fade away in time.
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#177mths? What unit is that. Did they mean 7μs resolution? How is that special? I see youtubers doing nanoseconds.
edit: here is the important information in this article.
> Scorpius is a new accelerator project planned for the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) that will use an electron beam that can be broken into customized pulses to deliver x-rays and capture multiple images only hundreds of nanoseconds apart.
So 0.1μs or 100ns temporal resolution 3D X-ray.
Re: Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second
#18Wow, this is wild. billionths of a second?!
"Millionths", abbreviated "mths of a second" here for... reasons... Known to the entire world, including American STEM people, as a microsecond.
Anything to avoid using the proper units, you wouldn't want the Americans audience to be enlightened wouldn't you.
Re: Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second
#197mths? What unit is that. Did they mean 7μs resolution? How is that special? I see youtubers doing nanoseconds. edit: here is the important information in this article. > Scorpius is a new accelerator project planned for the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) that will use an electron beam that can be broken into customized pulses to deliver x-rays and capture multiple images only hundreds of nanoseconds apart. So…
The first line of the articles says "seven-millionths of a second", which would be 1/7μs or 0,14μs. They also mention that the camera shot 16 frames in that period, so that would be once every 0,00875μs or once every 8,75ns
Youtubers are a couple of magnitudes away from that, AFAIK
Re: Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second
#20Error 404.