X-Ray Laser For Creating Supercharged Particles

This isn't "heating atoms by making them enter resonance." It's, ah, one of those details that GP was talking about. The part where the inner electrons of large atoms follow many and complicated multi-photon-absorbtion paths to being ionized, which extremely high-spin orbitals as well as a near continuum of high-laying Rydberg orbitals, which mean that slight changes in pulse length, shaping, and frequency will be able to have a large effect on ionization rates.

Let me give you a hint: If there's a paper being published in Nature about it, they probably did not, in fact, "just, like, change the dial, man."

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/9BQvHg2iDPI/x-ray-laser-for-creating-supercharged-particles

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