Large Helical Device: beautiful physics instrument

Posted by Cory Doctorow, September 4, 2008 11:46 AM | permalink

The Large Helical Device: a scientific instrument that straddles the line between beauty and function:

The Large Helical Device (LHD) project involves construction of the world's largest superconducting helical device, which employs a heliotron magnetic field originally developed in Japan. The objectives are to conduct fusion-plasma confinement research in a steady-state machine and to elucidate important research issues in physics and engineering for helical plasma reactors.

Large Helical Device Project (via JWZ)

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#1 posted by mdhatter

, September 4, 2008 11:53 AM

Apparently magnetic fields are easily fooled by Escher prints as well.

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#2 posted by minTphresh , September 4, 2008 12:09 PM

escher? no. this is an h.r. giger painting come to life!

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#3 posted by frankiez

, September 4, 2008 12:16 PM

PORNO!!!!

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#4 posted by Axx , September 4, 2008 12:24 PM

"So, what is it?"

"Well, its a DEVICE..."

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#5 posted by gabu

, September 4, 2008 1:00 PM

This is some Event Horizon s**t right here. "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see..." Damn.

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#6 posted by EH , September 4, 2008 1:11 PM

rasterbator would like a higher resolution.

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#7 posted by SamSam , September 4, 2008 1:11 PM

"Large Helical Device" eh? Real geniuses those physicists are in the naming department.

"Ah yes, and before working at the Large Helical Device, I worked in the Big Tall Building. It was around that time that I had my first child, Small Humanoid Organism."

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#8 posted by thievedrelic , September 4, 2008 1:49 PM

one would think that the National Institute for Fusion Science would spend a nickel or two to have a copy-editor peruse their website for standard grammatical errors.
one would be wrong~

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#9 posted by A New Challenger

, September 4, 2008 2:10 PM

Requesting Rule 34 on LHD/Large Hadron Collider.

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#10 posted by Boba Fett Diop , September 4, 2008 2:38 PM

You must be this_tall to ride the Large Helical Device.

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#11 posted by dannyhurt28 , September 5, 2008 12:51 AM

sceary

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#12 posted by airship , September 5, 2008 6:36 AM