New science division: Particle physics

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I am a physicist who has wired and worked with real particle accelerators, if you want to get totally :spergin: about it. I am serious.

I should note that I am not experienced with LASER-based wakefield acceleration or fusion experiments, which seems to be what this is modeled after, but I have done a fair amount of reading on high energy LASER production for use in acceleration experiments.

If I Placed a banana directly in front of the laser during mid experimentation. Would it turn into a god particle?
This is purely for a theory I have of a clown deity.

Any high energy pulses would be under very low vacuum so the banana would just explode and gunk up your equipment before you did anything. However: You could use a target made of something like aluminum fluoride and fire protons at it. Neutrons would come out through the back, and water (most of a banana) is a very good neutron absorber.

What I think would be fun with mostly existing stuff: Use a paint/water mixture in some kind of tank for a "rhodium dye" mixture. Use various crystals as an amplification medium, and have them break down over time depending on how much power is put through them, and burn up if you don't change them out. Make it so you have to match certain crystals to certain dye mixtures, but you can still create power at lower levels if you don't get it quite right (so it remains fun). Allow arrays of mirrors send the laser through multiple crystals (really you'd use the same one or two and a diffraction grating but that's hard to model in game) to increase power. Run the generator off a steam turbine, like a nuclear power plant. With the map that's been mocked up in this thread, you could have one emitter be the pumping laser and one be the pulsed beam source.