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Bizarre travelling flame discovery (youtu.be)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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 !

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

This was very cool, thanks for sharing it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

No real use for it, but a cool bit of scientific discovery.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

There could be some use for it in detonation front research. Rotating detonation engines biggest issue is keeping the detonation front alive and active.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Basically all of steve moulds channel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Tbh, it's what I enjoy about his videos in particular. He will run into or be shown a relatively mundane thing, but then dig into just for the sake of his (and our) curiosity. It's low-stakes science that still cares enough to dig past the surface layer of discovery

He also does a fairly good job citing his sources, which is nice to see in a popular content creator.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Reminds me of shock tube, which is always fun to wrap oneself in and ignite on a cold Army morning.