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Interesting anecdote about this great scientist, I hope you enjoy

Kaku how the boy built a collider in the garage of his parents

At the tender age of 17 years and as a science project for school, the popular physical and popularizer Michio Kaku built u n atom smasher in his parents' garage with the intention of creating antimatter (there is nothing). Those who are followers of Kaku, I have read the story in more than one occasion, the last in the preface of his book "Physics of the Impossible"


"I went to Westinghouse and gathered 200 kg of scrap from a transformer. During the Christmas coil 35 km of copper cable in high school football field. Finally I built a 2.5 million betatron electron consuming 6 kW (all power from my house) and generated a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than Earth's magnetic field. The aim was to generate a beam of gamma rays powerful enough to create antimatter. "


The feat is explained in more detail in the introduction to his most famous book, "Hyperspace", which provides some very interesting data. For the construction of betatron spent weeks documenting and reading about the basics of the machine. Once convinced he could do, he bought a small amount of sodium -22, built a cloud chamber and stirred garbage from electronics stores in the area until grouting several tons of equipment.


It then began to build the betatron in the garage and convinced his parents to help him roll the giant coils needed for the experiment in high school football field. She says she spent the Christmas holidays in the 50-yard line, up to 35 kilometers of cable wrap and place about this invention.


"When it was finally built, the betatron than 150 pounds and 6 kW electrical power consumed all of my house. When connected, jumped all the fuses and the house was suddenly darkened. With the house regularly plunged into darkness, my mother used to head-banging. (I figured she probably wondered why I could not have a son that plays baseball or basketball, instead of building these large electrical machines in the garage). "


The result, as we have said, was a machine that produced "a magnetic field 20,000 times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field, and of course attracted attention in the scientific world. Thanks to this display of youthful talent and insolence, he noticed the physicist Edward Teller, who got a four-year scholarship to study at Harvard. And above all, Michio Kaku was able to fulfill their dreams.


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I leave a link if you are interested download the book "Physics of the Impossible" audio-book formats. Also the incredible documentary made ​​on the same subject. Essential for those who like science.

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