Talk:Z Pulsed Power Facility

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The magnetic pulse crushes an array of tungsten wires into (?inside?) a foam cylinder that produces x-rays. 
see 
Duk 15:11, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  foam cylinder  

message: :The Z machine may also be used as a particle accelerator. It gets its name because current travels vertically into the target, which is conventionally the z axis (x and y being horizontal).
How do the meanings of these sentences connect?  The "current" here is the movement of electrons, and so in that way the Z machine is a particle accelerator?  Does this make the Z machine comparable in function to CERN? ✈ James C. 16:57, 2004 Oct 26 (UTC)
:: good point.  The sandia website mentioned that it could be used as a particle accelerator, but didn't give and examples, so i removed the sentance. Duk 19:19, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Z machine as a particle accelerator 

message: Needs to say where the plasma comes from - is it produced prior to the main event or is it a side effect of the vaporization of the tungsten wires? Leonard G. 05:28, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  From where comes the plasma?

message: :In 2006, the Z Machine produced plasmas with temperatures in excess of 2 GK (109 K) or 3.6 billion oF. Project scientists were doubtful about the results, but after fourteen months of computer modeling and further tests, they have concluded that the results are, indeed, valid.
I don't exactly understand how 14 months of testing could be done if this was first done in 2006, anyone understand the timeline here a bit better?  Perhaps it should be "In 2005"... Leebert 02:23, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  2GK production timeline 

message: What isthis sentence suppose to mean? "The Z machine is now able to propel small plates at 34 kilometers a second, faster than the 30 kilometers per second that Earth travels in its orbit around the Sun, and three times Earth's escape velocity."
It is worded poorly.... I wasnt aware the machine could propel stuff... I thought it only crushed them with xrays
The machine uses the energy that is normaly produced to well, crush things with X-rays is put into a coil/railgun to propel things. 71.196.157.153 (talk) 12:24, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing sentence 

message: Cool article, not enough time/knowledge to add it to the article  -Ravedave 14:35, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Z machine upgrades 

message: http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/rapid-fire-pulse.html
The pictures on this page are free to use according to the author.  Are any of them good for the article? M@$+@ Ju ~ ♠ 03:25, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Z Machine Pictures 

message: It says that the 2 billion kelvin is the highest man-made temperature. This is not true. They have already created trillion kelvin temperatures in RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) in the form of quark-gluon plasma.
:For how many "particles" ? Croquant 16:08, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the section altogether. The claim is generally believed to result from a misinterpretation (interpreting the kinetic energy as temperature). Since the original publication 16 years ago, no other peer-reviewed study has claimed anything even remotely close to that figure. Evgeny (talk) 16:31, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highest man-made temperature? 

message: A History section would we wonderful.  What lead to the creation the Z Machine?  Who was behind the creation of the Z Machine?  How has the Z Machine changed over time?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.179.217.154 (talk) 05:32, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History? 

message: Operated by Desmond Hume of Sandia National Laboratories, it gathers data to aid in computer modeling of nuclear weapons. The Z machine is located at Sandia's main site in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Desmond Hume>? The link is to the Lost character page so this is obviously some prank or vandalism.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.163.163.17 (talk) 00:28, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Desmond Hume? Seriously? 

message: "The end result of the program (scrapped in 2011) was the destruction of a goldfish named Frank." <-- located at the end of the article.
This is not referenced and seems to be vandalism. I've removed it from the article on 28/06/2016.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gabrieldillon (talk • contribs) 20:35, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead Goldfish vandalism 

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