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Can you create a particle accelerator using a Van de graaff generator and a solenoid?
VDG aggregates electrons.
Solenoid channels/directs them.
Particle accelerator.
The LLM says I can, but those things are crazy. To measure how far the electrons fire, I was thinking of an array of CFH bulbs every 6 inches.
I'm gonna build a VDG generator/capacitor anyway, neber had one in school,, just wondering about the particle acceleration bit.
If so, any tips?
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>>16958567
Thanks for noticing and that's why I'm here.
I have 0 friends I can talk to this about, hence, 4chan.
Not saying we're friends, just saying you can choose to waste your time on me, instead of me holding my friends unintentionally hostage and getting nothing because 0 of them are physicists/hard scientists.
Yeah, LLMs are gay. They will take you on a crazy train and take it off the rails and lie to your face.. The safety filter has kicked in too when I was asking about electrolysis.
>>16958511
No illusions about an LHC.
By accelerating particles, they'll indeed follow the path of my solenoid channel, with momentum proportional to the charge if my solenoid? And will dissipate down the line due to resistance?
Meaning I could point the solenoid channel at a row or column of gas-filled light bulbs, and even with low amps/electrons, I could have my solenoid accelerate watts through the light bulbs - and the gas inside them will excite if the power is enough? Like this light which is excited by the VDG field
https://youtu.be/kzod9FMHw-Q
but when the solenoid triggers it would become a beam, instead of a cloud
This is real?
And then with the electron cloud, this is actually possible? whether with a periodic beam accordongly, or a consistent cloud?
https://youtu.be/LU434h9_c7A
This neon tube seems more excitable:
https://youtu.be/0zCekn_YGag
And then if I aimed a solenoid channel and charged it, it would concentrate/beam the cloud into the light bulb at once?
I know I've repeated myself. I want to be understood, and have my hypothesis confirmed, or told why it won't work that way.
Which is why I'm posting here.
I have software engineer friends, they don't know or want to hear about this stuff.
My rural school never did it.
My intuition has gotten me asking the questions and the LLM has been removing roadblocks and the videos .ore or less back back it all up.
>>16958567
I have gathered data and am now asking humans. Or I think I am. If you're a robot say so.
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>>16958636
Thread, is picrel true.
Did generations of families gather around every evening crom 1926 to 2010 to stare face-first down the barrel of a firing particle accelerator?
What the fuck?
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>>16958509
here's your particle accelerator, bro:
https://youtu.be/l4UgZBs7ZGo?t=260
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>>16958721
It is.
Thank you. It's good to hear a human describe it as well.
I am being cautious about the leaps and connections the LLM says I'm making.
Confirmation is the ground.
If I get my VDG solenoid beam to work, I'll be able to put deflectors at the end of the beam, manipulated with potentiometers, and can demonstrate the live manipulation of the electrons in the beam by manipulating my X and Y deflectors.
I'm very excited. Execution is always a hard part, but I'm excited.
Thank you for the video, and the timestamp too, Anon.
I know the glass was thick and the shell shielded with lead, but still wild to think we were staring face first for almost a century down the barrel of a firing electron gun/particle accelerator.
Absolutely wild.