Friday, April 17, 2009

Synchrotron - useful light

Home of the huge Synchrotron Radiation Source
in Daresbury, Cheshire


This text is simply a reference to a BBC Science and Nature article that describes the synchrotron built in 2008 in Daresbury, Cheshire, to produce light that is 100 billion times brighter than X-ray.

Click here to read the informative news article in the BBC web site.

At £300m the Diamond Light Source is the largest investment on science made in the United Kingdom in the past 30 years.


Working with the Diamond Light Synchrotron

Light is indeed a fascinating thing.

Not simple at all.

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