[TheMagicalBadger]

Just a quick thing regarding definition of education levels, from a global perspective:

Those of us not from the USA may have quite different levels of education at each of the levels you define – I don’t know how much it is real or myth but I have been told that the typical British education is somewhat above the equivalent american for the same typical age and institution – please don’t take any offence from this, it’s just meant as an example.

So just remember that you may wish to take into account potential variability in either direction and I do like to think of this as a more global project even if the key players are all in the USA doing the hard work.

I also know from personal experience that the maths/physics/chemistry I was taught at a Grammar school in the south of england was well above those from state schools at the same level, so I never experienced any ‘jump’ in required knowledge up to and including degree level. But having spoken to others when starting University some of them saw huge jumps between GCSE to A-level or A-level to university. So there can be significant variation even within the same country.

The fact that I dropped out of my chemistry degree after the first year to change to Computer Science is unrelated of course 😉

I don’t know what you can do with any of this information, however.

[TheMagicalBadger]

Firstly, Hello!

I’ve been following this project for several years as a paid-up member, but read-only stalker. The summary provided by jamesr is the absolute best and simplest I have yet seen produced. I’ll leave it for other people to confirm/correct its accuracy as it’s way beyond my area of expertise 😉

It probably helps somewhat that I have a good pre-univeristy level science and maths education, although dating back 15 years ago, and I have read everything ever posted here. Even then, there have been fuzzy bits in my head e.g. if I’m telling people about how I understand the LPPX science works and why they should care how great it could be I get so far with the details/shape then it turns into something like ‘huge voltage across a gap, filaments, *mumble mumble* twisty bits, knots, compression to plasmoid, *more mumble*, fusion! Then reaction products and energy extraction which are actually one of the simpler bits to accept assuming The Mighty Onion becomes an enginering reality at some point (though one can still dream that the pure inductive leccy generation will give above break-even!)

This summary would seem to me to be the starting point/top level, along with a supporting diagram. Then having each item hyperlink to let you drill down for more detail about that component or reaction phase, photos of components both separate and in situ, and of course the science and maths for those that want it including links to relevant papers. I would guess you could duplicate this entire process for the ‘standard’ or non-lppx, quite possibly as a side-by-side view for each page to best see comparisons?

anyway, that’s just how I felt it might progress and thought it worth finally having something to say, so thanks!

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