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Forgive me guys, Im jus obsessed with these plasma visualizations😍 A relativistic electron beam can rip plasma electrons out of its path and leave behind a positively charged iron cavity. As the driver passes, the light electrons are expelled outward into a dense sheath, while the much heavier ions...

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Matheliriumvor 18 Tagen

See "Beam loading in the nonlinear regime of plasma-based acceleration" by Tzoufras et al. 2008

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Doimo Manuvor 18 Tagen

Also some interesting research of 23 years ago that enabled this:

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Matheliriumvor 18 Tagen

Awesome! Thanks for sharing🫡

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Doimo Manuvor 18 Tagen

With great pleasure. Godspeed on your account.

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Gabrielvor 18 Tagen

It is an absolute triumph of scientific reasoning. 😍

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Akkivor 18 Tagen

Coupled with the music, they are obsession worthy, even just for the visuals!

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Jiri Snaidr, PhDvor 18 Tagen

Great work! How do you make these visualizations?

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Matheliriumvor 18 Tagen

I render them in Python

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rmrfxyzvor 18 Tagen

They're awesome and I keep stumbling in all sort of rabbit holes thanks to your channel 👌🍻🤘🙏 I'm curious - (how) do you have a sense of what is their accuracy, when it comes to the ones which are not empirically observed?

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integral00integervor 18 Tagen

Your account is one of the most fascinating on X. 👏 Keep up the incredible work.

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TwoDogs ∞ 🦋vor 18 Tagen

🤩

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Greg Sweeneyvor 18 Tagen

picture worth a thousand words ---thanks for posting

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Toreador (Leplace's demon)vor 18 Tagen

Wow math , you must be capable to find the answer of the mechanism (and reason why) which causes the hot area , being hotter than the sun , at the edge of our solar system. 🌻 I ❤️ your animations , even if I don’t get it !! Haha, 😎🆒 Thank you 🙏

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StandingOnTheMoonvor 18 Tagen

No forgiveness necessary

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jonteno kingofcrowsvor 18 Tagen

qhy do i feel like i abuse this when smoking cigarettes?

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Johnny Cornellvor 18 Tagen

1

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Mike Kuriavor 18 Tagen

Wow Windows Media Player from 2000

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Jordanvor 18 Tagen

Electric cosmology has entered the chat

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Liamvor 18 Tagen

It is beautiful. Is it just a visualisation or is this observable?

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Arch Delta Houndvor 18 Tagen

It's a civilizationally edifying obsession. Carry us through the light, so that we might understand.

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