Large Helical Device: beautiful physics instrument

The Large Helical Device: a scientific instrument that straddles the line between beauty and function:

The Large Helical Device (LHD) project involves construction of the world's largest superconducting helical device, which employs a heliotron magnetic field originally developed in Japan. The objectives are to conduct fusion-plasma confinement research in a steady-state machine and to elucidate important research issues in physics and engineering for helical plasma reactors.

Large Helical Device Project (via JWZ)

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minTphresh

escher? no. this is an h.r. giger painting come to life!
frankiez

PORNO!!!!
Axx

“So, what is it?”

“Well, its a DEVICE…”
dannyhurt28

sceary
gabu

This is some Event Horizon s**t right here. “Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see…” Damn.
EH

rasterbator would like a higher resolution.
SamSam

“Large Helical Device” eh? Real geniuses those physicists are in the naming department.

“Ah yes, and before working at the Large Helical Device, I worked in the Big Tall Building. It was around that time that I had my first child, Small Humanoid Organism.“
thievedrelic

one would think that the National Institute for Fusion Science would spend a nickel or two to have a copy-editor peruse their website for standard grammatical errors.
one would be wrong~
A New Challenger

Requesting Rule 34 on LHD/Large Hadron Collider.
Boba Fett Diop

You must be this_tall to ride the Large Helical Device.
airship

math + science = beauty
mdhatter

Apparently magnetic fields are easily fooled by Escher prints as well.