The Sandia laboratories "Z-machine"

The Sandia laboratories "Z-machine"

The radial accelerator, what is known as "the Z-machine" is one of the most powerful tools in the particle research, and in fact, it is created for fusion experiments and also for the weapon research where is needed the fusion bomb simulation. The radial accelerator can impact nuclear particles at the same point by using multiple tracks at the same time.

This kind of thing makes this system the multipurpose tool for many things, where is needed to test the principles of particles of the theories of some interesting physical phenomenon in the practice. But as you might see this system is one of the most fascinating tools for simulating the fusion engines, where the helium 3 or deuterium and tritium isotopes would be driven through the epicenter.

The “Z-machine" might get its inspiration from a fusion power multi-use spacecraft-concept from the early 1980s, which could open the route to the entire solar system. But stars would be too far away.

In this place, the extreme heat would connect those atoms, and there is a couple of ways to use the system, what looks like “Z-machine” for that action, another is driving the ion ray through the epicenter, where the extreme heat and magnet field would push the particles together. And then another version would be that the accelerators would shoot the ions together. In this case, the helium or hydrogen ion, what are positive must contact with negative ions.

If the speed and the impact energy of those ions would be high enough, that thing allows that the fusion would begin. If the fuel for fusion reaction would deliver to process from the sideways, the reactor can give punch for both sides, and the thing is that the hatch can close the other side of the jettison, and that would make possible to focus thrust to another side. So that’s why the “Z-machine” has given the innovation for the motors, which would open the solar system to mankind.

There have been created ideas of the saucer-shaped spacecraft, which would have this kind of fusion motor, which allows it to flight in space very high speed. And the thing is that the moving direction is opposite to the floor. In this case, the acceleration would allow creating artificial gravity in the craft. Maybe the shuttles of the future, what will transport people and cargo between planets would look like a saucer.

When the shuttle comes to the atmosphere of some planet, it would move sideways by using small rocket motors, which can be on every side of that saucer. Those rockets would allow the craft to move in the atmosphere or orbiter, but in interplanetary flight, this kind of craft uses fusion power. But for interstellar travel, those crafts would be too slow. And that means that if we are creating the interstellar craft, that thing could be real when the sun is turning to a red giant.

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