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Pastimes : Alas, Ask Poor Yorick Off Topic Questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cisco who wrote (43)	5/14/2000 6:44:00 PM
From: Vendit™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 134

Ok brother Cisco I'll address your quark question. This is honestly from Yoricks memory glands so feel free to manipulate his thinking processes where you see fit. what are some advantages linear accelerators have over circular accelerators? A linear accelerator was conceived and designed in an attempt to find the missing link i.e. quark. This required a gun which fired a particle (atom) at well over the speed of light. In theory a quark was suppose to be a bi product of a small nuclear explosion. If such a particle should exist this may be a way to fire something called "cold fusion". Cold fusion is another way of describing perpetual motion. Perpetual motion is another way of saying "Free energy source". (how am I doing so far?<g>) The problem with linear accelerators was that the speed in which an atom was able to achieve needed to be about the distance from the surface of the earth to the moon. Obviously that would not be possible on earth. Then answer is to build a circular accelerator using magnets and an underground tunnel (in the state of Nevada) so that no distance was no longer an issue. To date I dont think the funding for this massive project has been approved. The main advantage is that a circular accelerator has no distance limitation.