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Supercollision Wind Tunnels
Simulate relativistic collisions in a wind tunnel
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What I envision is a high-energy linear particle accelerator with a test model balance so that ionized atomic particles go flying down the tube toward the test model at relativistic speeds. This would give a chance to test various types of shields or particle deflectors for spacecrafts moving at relativistic speeds.

quantum_flux, Dec 30 2007


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       What's a "test model balance"?

ldischler, Dec 30 2007
  

       Didn't we do something similar? But involving firing collider-generated particles into a hypersonic wine tunnel?

MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 30 2007
  

       Yes, that last one involved hypersonic wind and particle acceleraters, which is hypersonically unecessary though, so I've revised the idea without the hypersonic wind tunnel part.   

       A test model balance is a name for the mechanism that holds the test model in place. Normally it can be used for measuring lift and drag on an airfoil.

quantum_flux, Dec 30 2007
  

       I anticipate rocking in the new year in a hypersonic wine tunnel.   

       On another note, could one not use a regular particle accelerator for these tests?

bungston, Dec 31 2007
  

       I was too late getting tickets to the Hypersonic Wine Tunnel bash.

Giblet, Dec 31 2007
  


 
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