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Yeah, it has the energy of a semi truck going at a few hundred mph but in something that is about 1nanogram of mass (about that of the average human cell).
by rcxdude 3y ago
Yeah, it has the energy of a semi truck going at a few hundred mph but in something that is about 1nanogram of mass (about that of the average human cell).
- londons_explore 3y agoHow much of the energy is in the moving electrons/protons, and how much energy is stored in the superconducting magnetic fields?
- datenwolf 3y agoAll of it in the relativistic kinetic energy of the beam. The energy in the superconductor magnets is a whole chapter of its own; their energy dissipating into heat is what makes the Helium boil off during a quench. Also static magnetic fields don't "do" work, by that I mean, that you can not extract energy from a magnetic field by sending particles through it: The Lorentz force is perpendicular to both the movement of the particle through the field, and perpendicular to the field itself. Hence taking the inner=scalar=dot product of the force vectors and trajectories they come out as 0, i.e. no work is done. You need dynamic magnetic fields to do work.