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Bizarre travelling flame discovery (youtu.be)

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[–] Sal@mander.xyz 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Awesome! The one with the sustained source loop is my favorite:

Also, the one that shoots out flames paints a picture similar to how a synchrotron behaves, shooting out X-rays into the beamlines as the electron bunches move around.

Upon looking into it closer, the synchrotron is a bit of a mixture of those two concepts - the source loop (booster ring) that is fed by the linear accelerator, and then the larger loop (storage room) that feeds X-rays the beamlines. Of course, many details differ, but still it is interesting to notice the similarities !