In reply to Russ George's message of Fri, 20 Jan 2017 17:40:12 -0800: Hi, [snip] >Might you provide a ref or few to the comment. " It is well known that when >you shine a laser through a plasma, you get a bench top GeV particle >accelerator."
https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/research/laser-plasma-accelerators http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v4/n6/full/nphys966.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_acceleration > Are the necessary conditions present in Holmlid's experiment? He does shine a laser through a plasma, so the conditions would appear to be at least somewhat present at the instant the laser is turned on. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
