{"id":4640,"date":"2010-01-26T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4640"},"modified":"2010-01-26T03:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T08:00:47","slug":"pinch-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4640","title":{"rendered":"Pinch Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2010\/fusion-ldx-0125.html\">Levitating magnet brings space physics to fusion<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The results, published this week in the journal <em>Nature Physics<\/em>, confirm the counter-intuitive prediction that inside the device\u2019s magnetic chamber, random turbulence causes the plasma to become more densely concentrated \u2014 a crucial step to getting atoms to fuse together \u2014 instead of becoming more spread out, as usually happens with turbulence. This \u201cturbulent pinching\u201d of the plasma has been observed in the way plasmas in space interact with the Earth\u2019s and Jupiter\u2019s magnetic fields, but has never before been recreated in the laboratory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Levitating magnet brings space physics to fusion The results, published this week in the journal Nature Physics, confirm the counter-intuitive prediction that inside the device\u2019s magnetic chamber, random turbulence causes the plasma to become more densely concentrated \u2014 a crucial &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4640\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}