{"id":172666,"date":"2023-09-23T21:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T02:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/california-just-fired-the-worlds-most-powerful-x-ray-laser"},"modified":"2023-09-23T21:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T02:24:35","slug":"california-just-fired-the-worlds-most-powerful-x-ray-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/california-just-fired-the-worlds-most-powerful-x-ray-laser","title":{"rendered":"California Just Fired The World\u2019s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kUeraeIkTmo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The boundaries of science are constantly being pushed and expanded as newer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-used-the-most-powerful-space-telescope-ever-built-to-look-at-uranus\">more advanced technology<\/a> is developed, and researchers are now promising a \u201cnew era\u201d of discovery as the world\u2019s most powerful X-ray laser comes online.<\/p>\n<p>The laser in question is the <a href=\"https:\/\/lcls.slac.stanford.edu\/lcls-ii\">Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) II<\/a>, and it\u2019s able to produce up to a million X-ray flashes every single second. That\u2019s some 8,000 times more than the original LCLS laser, creating a virtually continuous beam of highly energetic light that is 10,000 times brighter than before.<\/p>\n<p>That means it can capture processes in much more detail at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/worlds-first-x-ray-of-a-single-atom-reveals-chemistry-on-the-smallest-level\">atomic scale<\/a>, perhaps processes that have never been properly observed before \u2013 and from there, maybe opening up completely new fields of research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boundaries of science are constantly being pushed and expanded as newer and more advanced technology is developed, and researchers are now promising a \u201cnew era\u201d of discovery as the world\u2019s most powerful X-ray laser comes online. The laser in question is the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) II, and it\u2019s able to produce up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}