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ikanreedParticipantBreakable wrote: Hi All,
There are thousands of celebrities doing Ask Me Anything on reddit (AMA’s) every year ( https://www.reddit.com/r/IAMA ) and millions of people see them
I just installed this app to get notifications about “trending” AMA’s http://redditama.appsites.com/
and I am wondering what would be the best celebrity to ask questions about fusion, to lead them on learning about innovative fusion concepts including Focus Fusion?
What would be the best question to ask?
Is a “loaded question” a good approach or would you try it differently?Celebrities don’t know anything about fusion, by and large. You’d be way better off trying to get a fusion researcher to do an AMA, and hope that enough people can be interested in that to engage it.
ikanreedParticipantOnly 2 orders of magnitude to go.
ikanreedParticipantTim1 wrote: Actually the main impact Focus Fusion will have on large grids is to make them obsolete. Since FF devices don’t have much environmental impact, they will be located near the point of use. (Waste heat should be the major environmental impact, may be district heating and adsorption chillers will become popular.)
The fact that a coal boiler would fit in my back yard doesn’t mean I’d want one for any particular reason. Economies of scale will continue to apply to maintenance of generators, regardless of energy source.
ikanreedParticipantI know we’re all gung-ho for the value of aneutronic fusion, but all fusion wins if any commercially viable fusion reactor hits the market. Suddenly no one can claim that fusion is “always 50 years away” anymore.
July 7, 2014 at 10:22 pm in reply to: Student under investigation for building and operating a fusor #13383ikanreedParticipantCan’t any sort of fusor(obviously, aneutronic fuels aside) be used as a neutron source for breeding actual large scale radiation sources that tends to be frowned on for non-proliferation reasons?
March 12, 2014 at 5:12 pm in reply to: Galaxies in the early universe mature beyond their years #13179ikanreedParticipantFrancisl wrote: Galaxies in the early universe mature beyond their years The Big Bang Theory is in question again?
No. I know Eric Lerner proposed a plasma cosmology, but not everything unexpected in astronomy is a shot at the big bang. The actual new data is that we can see the arrangement of galaxies further away in our light cone, that are younger, and their state isn’t exactly what was simulated from current understanding of star formation. This says next-to-nothing about the big bang.
Now plasma cosmology is interesting, in that it also describes some of the observational data just as well, but in order to undermine the big-bang in popular science you’ve gotta have a testable assertion about how the universe today would be observably different versus big bang. Until then, the redshift of galaxies is pretty sizable evidence of an expanding universe, and that can be extrapolated backwards to the big bang, which lives as a de-facto standing theory as a result.
ikanreedParticipantTulse wrote:
Are you sure you meant He3+proton? I mean, there’s a lot about subatomic reactions I don’t understand, but isn’t it t+proton?
No, I meant (and wrote) “H3 nucleus and a proton”, which is also “tritium and and proton”.
Oh, yeah, H3 not He3. Forgive me.ikanreedParticipantAre you sure you meant He3+proton? I mean, there’s a lot about subatomic reactions I don’t understand, but isn’t it t+proton?
ikanreedParticipantWait. Is Focus Fusion Society actually a different organization from Lawerenceville Plasma Physics?
ikanreedParticipantPB11 by 2015? Sounds ambitious.
ikanreedParticipantFrancisl wrote: Helmholz coil offers clues about how to achieve controlled nuclear fusion at Sandia National Laboratories’ powerful Z machine.
I’m nowhere near the physicist it would take to even know if Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities even affect FocusFusion. All I know is that both experiments are Z-pinch based. Is there any applicability of this info on FoFu-1?
ikanreedParticipantIt’s all very promising. What alternative scaling did Dr. Di Vita suggest was a basis of his calculations? How does that formula mesh with existing data from the experiments?
ikanreedParticipantWasn’t focus fusion a byproduct of a NASA fusion rocket research grant, or have I misremembered my history?
ikanreedParticipantAll the time. I frequently give up on posting when it happens several times in a row. Haven’t been able to tell the cause.
ikanreedParticipantAaronB wrote: http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/1446/20130418/big-bang-scientists-wrong.htm
“Researchers led by Princeton astrophyscisit Paul Steinhardt noted that the list of possible inflation fields determined by Planck scientists are less likely to occur naturally than others they ruled out, according to Nature.com. Furthermore, Steinhardt and his team point to new research emerging from scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) showing that the Higgs field likely started in a high-energy state, rather than in a stable, low-energy one. Steinhardt argues that the odds of the Higgs field starting in such a precarious, metastable state are similar to that of dropping a person out of the sky over the Matterhorn only to find he or she landed in a ‘dimple near the top.'”
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I wonder what the explanation for this will be.I dunno, it feels off to try and apply probability to the underlying rules of the universe what with the anthropic principle and all.
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