“Plasma Table” by Elle Starkman and Andrew Post-Zwicker, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
This photograph was awarded First Prize in the 2005 Princeton University Art of Science Competition.
The Art of Science Competition is a celebration of the aesthetics of research and the ways in which science and engineering inform art and vise versa.
According to Starkman and Post-Zwicker, “A dust cloud of silica microspheres is illuminated by laser light and suspended in a plasma. The dust cloud is approximately 0.5 inches high and floats in a conical shape between the dust tray and an electrode as long as the plasma is maintained. Fundamental dust cloud properties and dynamics have applications ranging from plasma processing to space plasmas.”
Photo courtesy of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
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My brthren you have capacity of to construct the thermonuclear controlled reactor, only that, you must needs let construct something functional. The tokamak were invented in 1950 by physicists Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov inspired by idea to Oleg Lavrentyev, when he studyed the realization of the hydrogen bomb, which has not need of magnetic trap, and thus all the experiments were finished with the destruction to the tokamak installations in the central zone.