Science & Technology Review July/August 2005

Aufderheide, M B

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

关键词: Methane;    99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, Computing, And Information Science;    Computers;    Statistical Mechanics;    Hafnium 178;   

DOI  :  10.2172/877799
RP-ID  :  UCRL-TR-52000-05-7/8
RP-ID  :  W-7405-ENG-48
RP-ID  :  877799

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This journal contains the following articles (1) The Grand Challenge of Thermonuclear Ignition--Commentary by Edward I. Moses; (2) Orchestrating the World's Most Powerful Laser--The computer control system for the National Ignition Facility will soon have about 1.4-million lines of code running on more than 750 computers; (3) A Randon Walk through Time and Space--Albert einstein's 1905 papers on Brownian motion, random fluctuations, and statistical mechanics are fundamental to many Livermore research projects; (4) The Search for Methane in Earth's Mantle--Scientists are discovering that Earth's mantle may have untapped reserves of methane; and (5) Testing the Physics of Nuclear Isomers--Results from a tri-laboratory project contradict claims of accelerated release of energy from the nuclear isomer hafnium-178.