DONALD TRUMP WANTS A BIG PARADE

China Passes U.S. in Laser Power. 
China Passing U.S. and Europe in Giant Accelerators
Thank Heavens we've got Elon Musk.
...'Cause the Trump Administration is shooting us in our science foot

"The most powerful pulses of light the world has ever seen"
(Science Magazine)

Shanghai
5.3 million billion watts
5.3 PETAWATTS, up and running. And they are building a 100 PETAWATT model.  These super powerful, super short pulse lasers are opening vast new areas of research, and the U.S.A. is not leading the pack. Even Romania and the Czech Republic will soon zoom around us. Russia, of course is planning the Czar Bomba of lasers, a 180 PETAWATT monster. 
"Largely missing from the fray are U.S. scientists, who have fallen behind in the race to high powers." sayeth the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. And...

DONALD TRUMP WANTS A BIG PARADE


Big, sophisticated accelerators are coming on line in China

China Spallation Neutron Source, Dongguan, China
China is only the fourth nation to accelerate beams of heavy protons

And they are building four more major accelerators.

A major Chinese accelerator in the works
They are coordinating with British Scientists
All this will "Put China on par with or leading the world in the design, construction and exploitation of accelerator based research and applications," sayeth Brookhaven National Lab in New York.
(Remember, we've already been surpassed by the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.)

The U.S. has "plans" and some ingenious upgrades on some of our older accelerators. But as science budgets are being "re-examined" by the Trump Administration, it looks like we will just let the Chinese slide by us. But we're going to have a big, beautiful wall, and.....


DONALD TRUMP WANTS A BIG PARADE


... but by gosh we've got Elon Musk


Olde Scooter's Preoccupation-With-China List
                        (Jess click em, padnah)

China Becoming World Science Leader?
More Threats from China -SUPERCOMPUTERS
Watch China Watch the Sky (world's biggest radio telescope dish)
China Could Pass Us Again (electric cars)
Keeping Our China Eyes Open (jet airliners)
Why I Keep Worrying About China (robots)
Worrying About Chinese Competition (airliners and solar power)
Hypersonic Chinoise (ultrafast weapons)
Quantum Statistical Network, Up and Running? (Chinese ansible?)








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