The Strange History of Fusion
and the Science of Wishful Thinking
by Charles Seife
Posted on 03/03/2018 10:42:32 AM PST by BenLurkin
Scientists have finally created an elusive particle known as the Shankar skyrmion, more than 40 years after it was first theorized.
And, in the process, they may have modeled the rare phenomenon of ‘ball lightning’ on a quantum scale.
Not only could the discovery help to explain the mysterious natural occurrence, which can appear as a sphere of electricity in the midst of storms, but the experts say it could pave the way for more stable plasma in fusion reactors.
The three-dimensional particle consists of knots made from the spin fields of a Bose-Einstein condensate – or, atoms cooled to a point just above absolute zero.
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To create the skyrmion, the researchers polarized the spin of each atom upward along an applied natural magnetic field.
Then, the field is suddenly changed.
This causes the field to ‘vanish’ in the middle of the condensate, which acts as a single system. The spins of the atoms then start to rotate in a new direction. But, with the magnetic field pointing in all directions near zero, the spins create a knot of linked loops, each pointing to a fixed direction.
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Sounds like something Tesla would have done.
Shankar Skyrmion became Lou Christie’s bassist.
Sounds like the linked rings trick!
What’s next, they discover that Adamantium and Vibranium really exist?
Unobtanium.
Darn, I forgot about that one.
Any idea which of the three is really the best?
Here’s hoping somebody on your string theory list can explain this in words of one syllable.
I’m uh....asking for a friend.
In Wisconsin at the prelude to a very big storm starting I was sitting on my deck watching the updrafts. Then a hugh crack of lightning hit and there was a ball of glowing something which moved around and then lept to the base of a sliding screen door, made another bang and burned a basketball sized hole in my screen, scorching the carpet just inside. I think that is ball lightning?
Upsidaisium
I think, but not sure, that the fusion reaction would take place inside the ball lightening.
Unobtainium is the best. Allows you to fix stuff parts are unavailable for. It will at will change into anything.
No that was a particle weapon used by the Zorn. Man, I hate coming onto these threads and explain EVERYTHING! :-)
Administratium is the worst. It slows down any process the it is applied to, provides no value to output, and consumes vast resources to sustain itself.
Thanks BenLurkin.
There’s a bunch of purported explanations available on the ‘Tube.
http://www.google.com/search?q=string+theory+8+minutes+site:youtube.com
polarized spin..., must have been an easy article for the reporter to write.
That’s him, Klaus.
When I was about 6 or 7, I was sitting on the couch of our old house during a storm. From the outside, a white-hot glowing ball about the size of a softball came through the baseboard, rolled across the floor, and rolled through the baseboard on the other side of the room and disappeared. I have read that it is a rare thing that people witness this, but i know what I saw!
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