Inside the Most Powerful X-Ray Source in the World
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- The Z Machine is unlike any lab found on Earth. We visited this massive facility to find out how it's recreating the extreme conditions of the universe. Part 2 will be live tomorrow.
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The whole point of the Z machine is to store energy, and then compress it in time and space to achieve high energy densities.
Essentially, this means the Z Machine can replicate the cosmos right here on Earth. Allowing scientists to run a wide array of experiments giving researchers the ability to study everything from plasma to x-rays to neutrons and nuclear fusion.
Expanding beyond weapons research to drive innovation in the fields of material science, renewable energy and even helping redefine our very understanding of the universe.
Find out more about the Z Machine in part 1 of this Focal Point double feature, and watch part 2 here: • The Z Machine Recreate...
#zmachine #universe #xray #lab #science #energy #seeker #focalpoint
About Z
www.sandia.gov/z-machine/abou...
“Sandia’s Z machine is Earth’s most powerful pulsed-power facility and X-ray generator.
Z compresses energy in time and space to achieve extreme powers and intensities, found nowhere else on Earth. In approximately 200 shots Z fires every year, the machine uses currents of about 26 million amps to reach peak X-ray emissions of 350 terawatts and an X-ray output of 2.7 megajoules.”
With a touch of thermonuclear bomb fuel, 'Z machine' could provide fusion energy of the future
www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/...
“Every time the plasma physicists at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, fire a shot on their fusion reactor, a big chunk of the hardware goes up in smoke. Their Z machine contains banks of capacitors that fill up with more electrical energy than a thousand lightning bolts.”
Remaking a Planet One Atom at a Time
eos.org/features/remaking-a-p...
“When is a planet not a planet? Where does helium rain? How can water be solid and liquid at the same time? For answers, scientists put common planetary materials under extreme pressure and watched what happened next.”
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Hey Seekers! Thanks for checking out Part 1 of this two-part story. Check out Part 2 here: czcams.com/video/G9tj7wHbePo/video.html
I like the narrator, he displayed the facts without trying to sound like he is blowing my mind.
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For all we know, the narrator has absolutely no clue or even interest in knowing what he is talking about. That doesn't sit well with me.
Trying to hide my comment hahah liked the narrator. Just the structure sucks
Agree, let the content speak for itself.
Yes, this.
They're waiting for you, Gordon. In the test chamber.
I thought the same damn thing!
LOL this thing is in New Mexico and looks dead up like they're about to cause a resonance cascade.
Good God what is happening in there?
A resonance cascade.
A resonance cascade? At this time of year, at this time of day, on this side of the portal world, localized entirely within our facility?
Yes!
Can we stop it?
....
Hmm no.
AHHHHHH
Where are they waiting?? Let me to join them
Gordon better be ready with a crowbar then..
That photo of web of plasma lighting is just looking straight out of sci-fi movies
5:45
I'm glad there are smart humans that understand this stuff and can even build these devices.
It's, actually, quite astonishing that we evolved from primitive, ape like creatures to be able to create all the wonders we have in the modern world. Truly outstanding.
To Jameel Ja: u should see what our ancient ancestors accomplished. Some stuff can't be done today. Yet... Maybe some day somebody will reinvent the antidencity generator and we can go back to building with megalithic stone( with no pollution)
@@anthonybaransky137 what did they accomplish? Nothing that "we" haven't surpassed with today's modern technology.
Then we have dumb politicians who does shit for the worse.
The Z-Machine is like something straight out of a sci fi movie. The name, what it looks like, and when it fires it actually shakes the ground and discharges arcs around it. Absolutely badass
Alien: "hey guys, sooo what happened to that planet?"
"Uhmm they blew themselves up for science"
At least they didn't blow up the moon, Imagine how hard it will be for werewolves
That like the philosophy/lifestyle of a science race in the game, endless space 2, they named themselves the Sophorn.
Unless we suck ourselves into a black hole for science first
Thank you Lexus for making this video possible.
I think this is how Half Life starts
Man, I ain't travellin' to Xen.
I think this is how Xbox Series X produces raytraces.
Resonance Cascade ;) I was thinking about half life as soon as the music started playing
"A third of a Football field"
*GIANT EAGLE OF FREEDOM AND BUD LIGHT INTESIFIES*
Your eagle is one of the smallest eagles in the world ;)
Plot twist: They meant Soccer and Football fields are roughly equivalent.
@@kitty.miracle No shit. The size of their fields is roughly equivalent tho.
Football field is a internationally recognized standard unit of measurement
Every part of this video sounds more and more unbelievable until you watch the video of them working on it
This is a brilliant project. How awesome it must be to work on it and get the time to conduct experiments with this machine!
Do they call their security guards the Z Warriors/Z Fighters? 🤔
No just goku
Scientists: creating cosmic environment in earth
Meanwhile,
Me: watching old TOM and JERRY
That's a very worthwhile activity.
It's important to know what ingesting a flat iron & getting a frying pan to the face will do.
Yup all humans arent born equal mentally the level of brainpower to dream this up alone is insane
@@eduwino151 yeah really, old tom and Jerry is much better than that made with computer graphics.
Sometimes old is better
@@massimookissed1023 pure nostalgia, old tom and Jerry
Omg. It's like the room where Dr. Manhattan got his powers.
Imagine being one of the technicians that has to service that beast of a machine.
The risk of you dying skyrockets
I’d love that job
I had a picture of this thing on my desk about 20 years ago. Crazy to think they're still using and getting science from this bit of kit!
A cliffhanger? Forealsies??? 😫😫😫
Tune in nextime on Plasmaballs Z!
Aight time to track their progress and then be near the core when they do tests, so I can come out with powers. :P
You would come out with cancer xd
@@bigboybaggins8993 coming out with cancer is the best case scenario LMAO, what's more likely is that you will be zapped to a crisp
@Anime clips isn't that what Deadpool is technically? I think he says at one point he's just a human shaped tumor haha
in the whole map of the expanding universe, a blip glowed bright with the words "You are here." after the Z machine was turned on.
Isn’t this how Half-life started?
Welp who had Half-Life for November and December 2020 & Pacific Rim for January 2021
Yeah, Reminds me half life game
They should give a crowbar to that man speaking. Just to be sure
@@that1nerdyblackgirl736 I have "Texas size asteroid" on December 31st, 2020.
Obvious troll is obvious @@kitty.miracle
I really like this type of Seeker video.
Must be a pain in the ass to find parts for this damn thing..
Imagine company making them is shut down.
It's just a junk. Of the near future
My face the entire time 😳😳😳
Beautiful. The creation of the beginning and the end!
That machine is even more awesome than I already thought it was. And I mean that in the most original sense of the word awesome.
Those little DeWalt lights are the GOAT.
interesting. i must learn more.
The real reason why controlled fusion is hard.... sun has huge sample space interms of collision per sec... Thus probability of collisions overcoming proton-proton repulsion is high ... Quantum Tunneling effect..
Which is hard to recreate on Earth. Thus we need temperature higher than core of Sun
Bhuvanesh s.k it’s like What I told my girlfriend; size doesn’t matter if we can heat things up a bit.
ebulating yes both. (Along with a few other things, both pressure and temperature is necessary to undergo fusion on earth.
Crazy engineering!!!!
More narrators like this please!
Great video.
Watched twice and still saving to watch again 👀
Nicely explained.
Anyone else start humming Daft Punks Around the World when they showed them cleaning the center at 4:10?
I love the fact he didn't deny the rumor about opening a portal he brought it up.
Science also needs Oompa Loompas.
You guys made 2 separate videos for this topic but I think one video involving stuff from both would be more effective of conveying this information
wow! interesting! nice video!
Pretty cool
Wow, Lexus sponsoring a science show. Incredible!
Zee Machine is powerfoool!
Behind our back, this facility could be a Hulk-making factory or a secret lab of super soldier program.
Who told you? Was it Mike?
Z machine fires X rays in Y direction....cool!
I wonder what Tesla would make of this? He'd be like a kid in a candy shop...
I don't have the time rn to watch all these Videos but I feel like seeker is going crazy with Uploads recently
Just the Sheer numbers!!..its science fiction🔥🔥
Seeker should have explained or just told in practical terms what is DEOIONIZED water and why it's being placed on something electrically related.
It's basically a non conductive water that is sometimes used for cooling of exposed electronics, and also happens to be perfectly safe to drink (well prior to usage that is). :P
You could put this video as part of a sci-fi movie and I wouldn't know any better.
We should be using the z machine to create materials we don't have here on earth. Zap some space rocks and see what happens haha
Z machine and project shiva Star are extremely incredible experiments
Every one is Gangsta until Mad scientists Express it's thought.
The big green pipe running horizontally across the top of the machine is called Z beamlet. It's an ultrahigh power laser beam (1 quadrillion watts - higher power than Z itself actually) we built for them about 15 years ago here at the Lab For Laser Energetics that fires coincidentally with Z to create a few picosecond long super hard x-ray backlighter pulse which is used to image collapsed nuclear fusion microcapsules at the moment of maximum target compression and highest temperature and density. You can see the construction of similar chirped pulse amplified lasers at LLE on my channel. The technology used to create these lasers was invented here in the 80s by Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland who won the physics Nobel 2 years ago for their work.
That's one expensive science project
Radiation fearing conspiracy theorists watching this video: *Autistic screaming*
It explodes and everyone becomes a metahuman
Nice
Despite the other comments, I need to watch it several times to memorize the jargons,apparatus used in this research. Im rekindled that there's lot more happening beyond my understanding.😀
A cliffhanger on a Seeker video? For real?!
I wonder what they are actually doing with it ...... Clearly they are a top secret project
Go visit the National Ignition Facility next!
Sangat menginspirasi banyam orang dan semoga dapat menjadi berkat untuk manusia di seluruh dunia
Hi sir. You are requested to make a video on this:
1. When does the sun's magnetic polarity get reversed?
2. What impact will it have on the Earth?
3. Recently in 2020, the sun's polarity has been reversed, for the 25th cycle. When was the first cycle occurred?
4. Approximately when will the 48th (final) cycle occur?
5. What will happen, when the final 48th cycke occurs?
6. Whenever the first cycle had occurred, before that had no polarity reversal cycle ever occured on the sun?
7. Will the sun never ever change its polarity, after the 48th (final) cycle?
8. If the answer to question 7 is that the polarity will stilll be changed even after that, then why is the 48th cycle considered as the final cycle?
9. If after the 48th cycle, any new fresh cycle starts, then what will be different in the cycle? Why will be a fresh new cycle and not the 49th cycle?
I thought it was Pinball for a sec when I saw the Thumbnail :D
That guy is very determined. Can I buy him for my project?
The center of the Z machine looks like a carbon brake off a hyper car lol
SO... you're saying we're how close to the Death Star's laser ring? 😏
The man who was being interviewed sounds like a robot.
Do you want Dr.Manhattans? Because this is how you get Dr.Manhattans.
It's beautiful 2:26
you should make a short documentary on lexus structural blue paint, next time they are offering a sponsorship =)
Now we just need one of the personnel to be stuck inside when the Z Machine fires and we'll have a superhero, just like that.
New Mexican here. That thing is 12 miles from my house as a crow flies. Chech out the circle of barriers of Is security on Google earth. Even the building is split in different secure sections. Its about 10 miles south of white sands conplex. Thanks for the information. I was wondering why that end of the desert had a green glow to it?
Storing more than 20 MJ! WOW! That's more than 5 kWh! Impressive!
You'd think as Americans they would use the American system. Like they never mentioned how many hamburgers of energy is used in this machine. Like what the heck are joules? How many hamburgers are in one joule? Or what about the weight? How many ford f150s does it weigh? What are seconds? We use how many lies come from the government. I'm so lost
i like how the shove 3 nukes and a ton of action music into video about research facility where nothing happens basically (this machine basically charge a capacitor and then short it. that's it)
ok... thats cool and all, but what exactly is that used to research ?
Better insight into the cosmos is all I could think of. Also energy compression sounds useful
Presumably, they're trying to recreate extreme conditions like those near black holes and dwarf stars, if they can study these conditions, they could gain insight into the quantum mechanics that takes place in those regions, further helping research into gravitational anomalies and all that jazz.
And yes, energy compression really does sound dapper.
in a fictional universe this thing would make up for a great super hero origin story.
This sounds and looks like science fiction. Wow is all I can say.
Dr. Brent Jones is really intense and seems like he's low-key furious.
0:47 most money spent in the box office EVER
Background music is just superb, can you please refer the artist(s)?
Next the capacitors will each have the power of a locomotive. "And this is to go.. even further beyond!" Arrrggghhhhh!!!!!
"Science rules all. With its help, we will too." - Caustic
I need your playlist
That guy must think we all like semi trucks. He said semi trucks or 18 wheelers with every analogy
Why not metric units of volume?
Okay, guys The Flash is about to be born
A yes. Football fields. Very clear unit of length.
You can't fool me, the carbon soot in the chamber is really from all the Han Solo's you've sealed in carbonite.
What could possibly go wrong
Given than they've been using this thing for decades? Worst case they break their machine or someone gets lightning bolted to death.
Spider-man: STOP! IT IS TOOO UNSTABLE, AND WILL TEAR OUR UNIVERSE TO PIECES!
@@JeoshuaCollins until the randomly mutate a bacteria
@@ShitStainedBallSack It would probably kill the bacteria.
@@Megatonaxe probably being the main word
X-ray experiment is the last experiment on the list of experiment.
gobbledygook, gibberish, jibber-jabber, claptrap, falderal, jabberwocky
Hold on, lemme recreate the milky way
Is no one else going to talk about the part where he said "from *decades* of firing"?
Well it was built in the 80s and upgraded mostly to it's present form in the 90s so....
@@Muonium1 Well given that their talking about time dilation, among other interesting bits of physics, That most sources said wasn't possible for us to do during that time frame. I thought it was interesting. If nothing else a better explanation would've been nice.
Although, I am planning to rewatch the video with the gf tonight or tomorrow. So I may have just missed something that makes this extremely mundane.
Yep... nope... compressing time and space....1000 times more blah blah blah. But hey, I hope they found that vacuum leak the editors producer etc thought was so interesting.
@@StrangeTerror they're not talking about time dilation at all. They're merely saying they compress the energy delivered to the target in time meaning they deliver higher power to it.
@@Muonium1 l
Lol I understand what he meant, but his exact words were "to compress it in time and space"
Nuclear deterrents to ensure global peace. That's a fine piece of Newspeak Orwell would be proud of.
Did Orwell know about Nash equilibria?
@@dongiovanni4331 he surely knew about language manipulation. As for game theory, I suspect he didn't know about Nash equilibria since 1984 was written before they were formalised.
"world peace" aka developing nukes to deter countries from toppling the American hegemony on the world.
@@randomname5585 less people have died to violent conflict since the end of ww2 than during the war.
The world is objectively more peaceful with global partnerships.
@@dongiovanni4331 I'm not arguing for or against a balance of power maintained with weapons of mass destruction, I'd just like them to be called by their name. You can call a nuke "unicorn incapacitator" for all I care, as long as you call it by that name no matter who owns it.
The worlds biggest photo flash system.
No one:
Americans: A third of a football field
Whatever you'll have to do to get me a Phaser from Star Trek
Why does a science channel not use the metric system? Metric is way more useful and scientific than imperial. Also the imperial system is defined by the metric so why not straight up use the metric system so everyone else than Americans can understand your measures?
BREAKING: America shocked to learn that _"football field"_ is *_not_* an *SI* unit.
World's heaviest calibrated weight is measured in pounds. 1 million pounds. Look up Veritasium channel "world's heaviest weight" video.
beacuse MURICA
@@bwxmoto It does not matter in this argument. Kilogram is now defined independent of any reference weight en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram#Definition
It's not a science channel. It's a branch of a multimedia company who deals with "science, technology and culture."
In short its aim is to attract folk who aren't versed in the sciences and promote things the company think are worth promoting for profits sake. www.noxinfluencer.com/youtube/channel/UCzWQYUVCpZqtN93H8RR44Qw
Just sitting here asking, how do people come up with something like that? :D
Curiosity
Simple questions with complex solutions (and even more complex executions).
I think the better question is "Why?"!!
@@fyrbyrd71 For science
@@Megatonaxe Yeah, that justifies it... Yet the "cv19 virus" has not been isolated.