Comments on: World’s most powerful x-ray laser beam refined to scalpel precision

By: lizardlabs

lizardlabs — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:59:41 +0000

Very interesting topic and thanks for great posting.

By: Bri

Bri — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:19:45 +0000

The graphic gives us tantalizing clues, to the clarity of images. That’s a stunning increase of focus. The analogy of a scalpel is not far off. Should be quite an order of magnitude of increase in resolution. We shall all wait with bated breath for future stunning pictures, of the unseen atomic world!!!

By: Editor

Editor — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:03:46 +0000

Most definitely.

By: bhoffarth

bhoffarth — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:59:43 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to check on this. Please let us all know when Mr. Hastings will be able to give a more detailed answer. Occasionally I use stories from this web site as a current event article in my classroom. It is my hope that my students will appreciate the rapid changes taking place in technology and how they can incorporate these exponential trends into their life goals. Keep up the good work!

By: asiwel

asiwel — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:16:16 +0000

You know, one of the good “new” things at KurzweilAI Newsletter lately has been the individual responses to comments and the follow-ups to questions by the Editor. I really appreciate this effort and the results … and right here in this instance seemed to be the time and place to say so. Thank you!

By: egore

egore — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:17:28 +0000

I have been unable to leave a comment. Is this intentional or just a fluke? Your assistance is appreciated

By: Editor

Editor — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:12:30 +0000

Good question. I checked with SLAC, and Jerry Hastings, a SLAC scientist and co-author on the research, replied: “Right now the ‘couldn’t be done until now’ does not have a crisp answer, not even a guaranteed killer answer. We are at the earliest stages of development of seeding. In these sort of technique/source developments sometimes the start is a bit slow.” We’ll watch for further developments.

By: bhoffarth

bhoffarth — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:12:30 +0000

It would be interesting to hear what these new images would be able to reveal that previous x-rays were unable to.