Slapshot to Deep Space
Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 07:00
in Physics & Chemistry
The ticket to Mars and beyond may be a series of nuclear slapshots that use magnetic pulses to slam nuclei into each other inside hockey pucks made of a special, lightweight salt, according to physicists from The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
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