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First plasma fired up at world’s largest fusion reactor
Posted on 11/2/23 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 11/2/23 at 12:26 pm
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Crazy stuff...
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The long trek toward practical fusion energy passed a milestone last week when the world’s newest and largest fusion reactor fired up. Japan’s JT-60SA uses magnetic fields from superconducting coils to contain a blazingly hot cloud of ionized gas, or plasma, within a doughnut-shaped vacuum vessel, in hope of coaxing hydrogen nuclei to fuse and release energy. The four-story-high machine is designed to hold a plasma heated to 200 million degrees Celsius for about 100 seconds, far longer than previous large tokamaks.
Crazy stuff...
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Posted on 11/2/23 at 1:25 pm to teamjackson
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fusion reactor
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plasma
Hannes Alfvén, a Nobel-Prize-winning Swedish physicist conceptualized "plasma cosmology," positing that the universe has no beginning or end and that the electric and magnetic forces of plasma have done more to organize matter into star systems and structures than has gravity.
"The electric universe" is a variant of plasma cosmology wherein planets, stars, and galaxies are all affected by electrical currents within this plasma. Adherents believe that such an electric force travels faster than the speed of light, that gravity has two poles like a bar magnet, and that stars do not shine because of internal nuclear fusion but are instead anodes for these discharge currents.
I fully expect Pio to endorse the latter.
Posted on 11/2/23 at 1:48 pm to paperwasp
One of the claims for this hypothesis is represented by the torus shape of a plasma discharge, as seen in the (blue) top image.
To an observer viewing from the side, a distinct shape (purple) appears where the plasma is most dense.
This shape has been reproduced by ancient cultures around the world, as if they had simultaneously witnessed some sort of catastrophic electrical phenomenon in the sky.
The accompanying arcing flashes of light and rumbling sounds may have led them to assume that gods were battling in the heavens (à la Zeus' thunderbolts).
To an observer viewing from the side, a distinct shape (purple) appears where the plasma is most dense.
This shape has been reproduced by ancient cultures around the world, as if they had simultaneously witnessed some sort of catastrophic electrical phenomenon in the sky.
The accompanying arcing flashes of light and rumbling sounds may have led them to assume that gods were battling in the heavens (à la Zeus' thunderbolts).
Posted on 11/2/23 at 3:04 pm to teamjackson
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designed to hold a plasma heated to 200 million degrees Celsius for about 100 seconds,
Didn't the Aggies achieve cold fusion years ago?
Texas A&M Reports Cold Fusion - UPI May 22, 1989
Posted on 11/3/23 at 6:54 am to teamjackson
They are gonna blow up the whole damn solar system fricking around with shite like this.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 9:18 am to paperwasp
Hahah UAE and Arizona have nutsacks
Yes that’s all I gleaned from this scientific breakthrough.
Yes that’s all I gleaned from this scientific breakthrough.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 11:17 am to teamjackson
I await Sheldon Cooper's comments on this.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 10:15 pm to paperwasp
Arizona has balls.
Posted on 11/7/23 at 5:33 am to Animal
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The four-story-high machine is designed to hold a plasma heated to 200 million degrees Celsius for about 100 seconds,
Posted on 11/7/23 at 7:21 am to LanierSpots
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