Reply To: Alexander Franklin Mayer's Physics

[Ivy Matt]

And some publicity here:

http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/04/04/rocket-powered-by-nuclear-fusion-could-send-humans-to-mars/

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/05/17606782-scientists-develop-fusion-rocket-technology-in-lab-and-aim-for-mars

From the Cosmic Log article:

“The only answer to the ‘always 30 years in the future’ argument is that we simply demonstrate it,” Slough said. And that’s what he and his colleagues intend to do this summer, at their lab inside a converted warehouse in Redmond, Wash.

The key experiments are due to take place starting in late summer, at the UW’s Plasma Dynamics Lab in Redmond. If everything works, that would give the researchers the confidence to scale up the laboratory apparatus. For example, they’d use lithium rings instead of aluminum rings to increase the efficiency of the reaction.