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Scientists Build Smallest Engine Ever, Hotter Than the Sun and Powered by Randomness
Scientists have built the world’s smallest engine. It consists of a single microscopic particle, smaller than a human cell, levitating in a vacuum. By rattling this lone particle with “noisy” ...
Technically speaking, an engine is a device that converts some form of energy into mechanical energy. Taking that definition ...
Researchers channeled the strange rules of microscopic physics and created the high-performance engine, which also happens to be the smallest ever made.For that purpose, they describe a tiny ...
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World’s smallest particle engine reaches temperatures hotter than sun’s core World’s smallest particle engine reaches temperatures hotter than sun’s core World’s ...
Impressively, the world's hottest engine could alter our understanding of thermodynamics as well as human diseases.
At an effective temperature of 13 million kelvins, the jiggling glass sphere could help scientists understand physics at the microscale.
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