How a particle accelerator works

A nice introductory video, conceptually good but very far from reality. In particular, this is a representation of a particular accelerator chain, the one for a specific collider, the LHC at CERN. Other accelerators work differently, like synchrotron radiation light sources.

Yeah but what's it for

The fellow who built it - Ernest Lawrence

Thia is a 70 Mev electron synchrotron , a type of particle accelerator used for radiation therapy . This type of synchrotron was created by Dr. Robert stone and use to treat cancer patients with radiation from 1956 to 1964.

This is surprisingly satisfying to watch.

Who funds these projects

The little battery shown as adding energy is typically a high power microwave amplifier, a klystron. Here is the klystron gallery for LINAC4 used to inject particles into CERN Large Hadron Collider complex. Each klystron is an accelerator.

Technology on a mind blowing scale that spans multiple countries.

Billions upon billions spent on an end result of humans guessing at what things are and mistaking acceleration paths for decay rates.. They claim to have found the Higgs boson!! Amazing, they found something that doesn’t exist in the universe!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Well done except for that ridiculous sound track.

Humans in 2012, Built a 27-km machine to smash particles together at near light speed Also humans: still can't remember why they walked into the kitchen.😂😂

显微镜看细胞，粒子加速器看宇宙底层代码。微观世界的发展同样重要‼️

I've worked on a few of these at the high voltage end of generation the simplist way to look at it is that we smash tiny particales with a very fast tiny hammer and see what the pieces are. Also this is a sped up verison of Interworld's Metamorphosis an equally important development in human advancement.

Would be funny if its just all fake 🤔 🤣

Ye muje Tony stark ki yaad dilati hai..in iron man.#ironman

コンデンサーとダイオードで整流しながらゴリる奴もあるぞ（コッククロフト・ウォルトン回路）

I totally understand it, but its so fucking crazy to actually realize the forces at work.

Maybe each branch of the particle collusion are different branch’s of reality?

What if they create a black hole?

Sheesh!

to make what

This is too much to understand, I’m yet to understand how my car’s accelerator works 😐

Never thought I'd get turned on by a particle accelerator...

Absolutely brilliant explanation. It’s wild to see the scale and precision involved in something like this—definitely worth the watch!

Portal

Thanks for sharing 👍

please don’t ask me why i downloaded this