![]() ![]() A 100-foot 20-foot tall cylinder-shaped machine, Sandia's "Z-pinch" is the world's most powerful electrical generator. Quintenz should know-he works on a real-life pinch device. Set off in the middle of Las Vegas, the pinch detonates an intense "electromagnetic pulse" that blacks out the city's power grid for a few moments.Īs it turns out, some physics labs really do have devices called "pinches"-the movie's website touts the reality of the concept-but can they really produce such impressive effects? "I enjoyed the movie and the 'pinch' was an amusing twist but had little to do with science," says Jeff Quintenz, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. In the film, eleven con artists employ a physics device, called "the pinch," - to help them rob a vault containing the riches of three casinos. ![]() Before most moviegoers walk into the hit comedy "Ocean's Eleven," starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts, they don't realize that the Las Vegas con- artist caper contains some physics in its plot. ![]()
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