Public Lecture-Particle Accelerator on a Chip

[@kurtilein3]

about the laser source: a while ago i listened to a public lecture about lasers as surface waves on chips. They developed a nanostructure on a chip, and if you shine laserlight onto it from above it turns part of it into a surface-wave of laserlight on the chip. The lecture was in Garching, where the max planck institute is also located, so it might have been one of the quantum optics guys that did the lecture, or someone from a nanotechnology institute there.

[@mahu1203]

Great talk Dr. Christopher McGuinness. I enjoyed it and learned a lot. Greetings from Berlin.

[@ONRIPRESENCE]

3:23 ahem, it comes from the interaction of the Higgs field :))))

[@mahu1203]

:D

[@kurtilein3]

the question from the girl about how long it takes until she can have one in her handbag is really quite scary. There is a different question with a similar answer: How long until its weaponized, not just for big battleships but also infantry?

[@trustthewater]

I was thinking that too. Wonder if he's been approached about military applications. This was the dream of the whole Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars program), wasn't it?

[@JohnLakness]

Most entertaining physics lecture ever! Great accelerator science too. Also, was that Michio Kaku at the end? I'm watching for Chris on CNN....

[@test-tr3yl]

You have a totally kick ass talk....

[@gary.richardson]

Someday, a variant on this may be the core of a thruster for spacecraft. I imagine likely a state of sub atomic matter that is harnessed in channels of other sub atomic state of matter. I just recently watched a KZbin channel that included Bose Einstein Condensates, Quark Gluon Plasma, Time Crystals. Who knows what new physics might be engineered by new recipes....

[@ONRIPRESENCE]

7:38 Now we have precision AMOLED touchscreens on flexible and foldable phones. Not to mention the brain chip devices that let people control devices or play games purely using their thoughts :D

[@hughtonne1775]

The first step towards real life Phasers.