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This Particle Accelerator Could Uncover Mysteries in Ancient Texts

Researchers from the around the world have brought pages of a Gutenberg Bible and other historic documents to the SLAC National Laboratory in Northern California to be scanned by a unique type of particle accelerator called a synchrotron. Our video on the LCLS particle accelerator: From Jikji to Gutenberg Andy on Twitter @theandyaltman 00:00 Uncovering…

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Researchers from the around the world have brought pages of a Gutenberg Bible and other historic documents to the SLAC National Laboratory in Northern California to be scanned by a unique type of particle accelerator called a synchrotron.

Our video on the LCLS particle accelerator:

From Jikji to Gutenberg

Andy on Twitter
@theandyaltman

00:00 Uncovering Secrets of the Printing Press
1:26 What is a synchrotron? (SSRL)
3:04 X-ray fluorescence imaging (XRF)
4:15 Gutenberg and the printing press
4:54 Scanning Gutenberg and Confucian texts
6:05 What did they find?

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52 Comments

  1. RighT Ego

    August 14, 2022 at 12:05 pm

    wonderful❤️🤩

  2. I'm very Bored!

    August 14, 2022 at 12:21 pm

    good!

  3. ItzEagleT

    August 14, 2022 at 12:23 pm

    Wow

  4. Steve M

    August 14, 2022 at 12:24 pm

    7:00 Surprise! it’s the oils from your greasy fingers you had all over those precious documents. SMH

  5. Bllackcat 1

    August 14, 2022 at 12:24 pm

    As a X-ray tech, this is awesome!!

  6. _PBT_

    August 14, 2022 at 12:29 pm

    Thank you

  7. TTU222911

    August 14, 2022 at 12:45 pm

    Why are they wearing masks

    • rakim

      August 14, 2022 at 1:39 pm

      Why not? It’s their choice

  8. maldo007

    August 14, 2022 at 12:55 pm

    When I read the words x-ray blast priceless documents I thought someone destroyed the documents.

    • Skymoonearth

      August 14, 2022 at 1:03 pm

      A good clickbait title🤣

  9. Ericko Tandayu

    August 14, 2022 at 1:35 pm

    Oh wow 🤯

  10. adilator

    August 14, 2022 at 1:35 pm

    Incredible, and useless.

    • Andy Altman

      August 15, 2022 at 7:59 pm

      Awesome!

  11. Brendan

    August 14, 2022 at 2:31 pm

    Nothing of any value there

    • MAGA Man

      August 14, 2022 at 4:12 pm

      Including you

  12. Sunny G

    August 14, 2022 at 4:11 pm

    This man is touching a Gutenberg bible with his bare finger!!! WHAT?!

    • Nicholas Mangialardi

      August 14, 2022 at 4:31 pm

      Yeah, that alone makes me think these documents are reproductions, used for educational purposes

    • Ts6451

      August 14, 2022 at 7:40 pm

      @Nicholas Mangialardi It is actually fairly common for modern conservators and researchers not to use gloves when handling old books and documents, but rather preferring to just use well washed and dry hands.

      The reason for this is that gloves reduce sensitivity and add bulk to the hands, making them more clumsy, and as old paper tend to become brittle, the risk of tearing the paper is seen as a more immediate and serious issue.

      Of course, gloves are still used in some cases, books may have been treated with pesticides that can be harmful, and there are some materials that are more sensitive and so even clean hands can pose an issue.

    • Andy Altman

      August 15, 2022 at 7:58 pm

      @Ts6451 exactly! I learned this when I was there too!

  13. Rebecca Henderson

    August 14, 2022 at 4:14 pm

    So why isn’t that guy wearing gloves to touch the paper?? People are so stupid.

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    • Mike O

      August 14, 2022 at 11:19 pm

      You’re dumber thinking gloves should be used though…

    • Rebecca Henderson

      August 16, 2022 at 2:20 am

      @Andy Altman Well, that doesn’t stop mooks from touching their face, ears, nose, mouth or hair and getting oil on the docs. It seems that they’d be trained on how to handle the tactile difference. I don’t believe washing hands is sufficient with irreplaceable objects.

  14. Nicholas Mangialardi

    August 14, 2022 at 4:33 pm

    The way he handled the documents bare-handed leaves me to believe that these are reproductions, used for the educational purposes of the video

    • Andrew Hunt

      August 14, 2022 at 8:30 pm

      Handling them with (clean) bare hands is the correct way to do it. They were handled with bare hands for hundreds of years.

    • Ryan (ryan)

      August 15, 2022 at 4:19 am

      yeah my thought exactly

    • Andy Altman

      August 15, 2022 at 7:57 pm

      I had the same thought when I was there! It turns out common practice is just to wash and dry your hands before handling documents like this, because you lose some tactile sensation with gloves and are at more risk of damaging the pages.

  15. mulan fa

    August 14, 2022 at 5:36 pm

    Those are Chinese writing not Korean fonts, you need to do your research thoroughly before making video like these.

    • S L

      August 15, 2022 at 7:18 am

      Korean people used Chinese characters before Korean alphabet. Same with Vietnamese, Japanese and other smaller asian coutries. You don’t say English books are phoenician or latin. The writing system and language is a totally different thing.

  16. G Mercer

    August 14, 2022 at 6:42 pm

    I would hardly call any bible a valuable document. Another reason why I joined the freedom from religion foundation. If they can learn how these were made, etc—great. The content of these bibles is literary garbage, pornographic, genocide loving, murderous, war promoting, incestuous. the Bible is a horrible book. I would never let any person under the age 18 to read it. Ban the Bible from school libraries now! You want your children reading stories about LOT having incest with this daughters? EWWWWW!

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  17. Brandon Wright

    August 14, 2022 at 6:45 pm

    Think of how much more advance we would be if not for Religion.

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  18. Brandon Wright

    August 14, 2022 at 6:46 pm

    This was a complete waste of time to watch.

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      August 14, 2022 at 6:52 pm

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  19. Chong Li

    August 14, 2022 at 8:31 pm

    “3.6M” subs, averages around 35k views. 🐄 💩

  20. Ida Jegréus

    August 14, 2022 at 8:54 pm

    Why don’t they use gloves when handling such old and historically valuable documents? It doesn’t matter how clean your hands are, you always leave traces behind when you touch something! 🤯🤔

    • Di Tian

      August 14, 2022 at 11:37 pm

      Cause gloves make you clumsy. More easy to tear the page with gloves

  21. Edicson m

    August 15, 2022 at 12:24 am

    Waste of time lol

  22. James Buckler

    August 15, 2022 at 12:44 am

    They plan to alter old historical documents and change history this is very dangerous stuff

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  23. Eric Mix

    August 15, 2022 at 1:06 am

    I automatically dislike all videos in which I can’t see human faces

  24. Lord Lee

    August 15, 2022 at 1:12 am

    There should be a study of how much developed nations have rewritten history to glorify themselves by stealing and taking credit away from countries that lagged behind.

  25. That Xpat Fam

    August 15, 2022 at 2:30 am

    Incredible! More videos like this please!

  26. Madaka

    August 15, 2022 at 2:34 am

    The 3 Elements in the what they they named Element 1,2 & 3 are Copper(Cu), Zinc(Zn) & Arsenic(As) There is a picture of them at 6:02 on the tri-colour plot control lol

  27. Montecitodesign

    August 15, 2022 at 3:56 am

    “Emerging evidence” of earlier movable type printing than Gutenberg? Get real. This has been known since before Melvin McGovern’s 1966 tome, ‘Specimen Pages of Korean Movable Type’.

  28. Vierotchka

    August 15, 2022 at 6:33 am

    How come the man handling these pages is not wearing white cotton protective gloves?

    • Andy Altman

      August 15, 2022 at 7:58 pm

      I had the same thought when I was there! It turns out common practice is just to wash and dry your hands before handling documents like this, because you lose some tactile sensation with gloves and are at more risk of damaging the pages

    • Vierotchka

      August 15, 2022 at 8:11 pm

      @Andy Altman Except that oil and sweat can trasfer to the documents, even after having washed one’s hands.

  29. Fletcher Guevy

    August 15, 2022 at 8:15 am

    what could it consist of? wood and ink

  30. Adipose Rex

    August 15, 2022 at 9:27 am

    The pages of the 500 year old book are amazingly good.

  31. BaneOfVenus

    August 16, 2022 at 6:14 am

    They’re using humans as biological particle accelerators , energy harvesting via energy weapons thru satellites, radio towers, planes, drones and an army of gangstalkers with apps it’s far worse than anyone realize

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