Posted on 05/28/2025 6:00:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
Of course all of that fusion business depends on the physics behind it being correct, and that there are no surprises, since we as nuclear physicists “know everything, and its just a matter of filling in the details”, so said the scientific community in the mid-1950s.
Don’t hold your breath.
since we as nuclear physicists “know everything, and its just a matter of filling in the details”, so said the scientific community in the mid-1950s.
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I would totally agree if today’s technology were no better than 1950’s technology.
But its not.
What’s more the technology is rapidly improving and the rate of improvement is increasing.
So you might even be right if the rate of improvement were constant. But again its not.
The rate of improvement is accelerating.
That’s what the physicist working on these things report.
so we wait. we’ll see. It will come sooner or later.
They said the same things about their tech in the 1950s. After all they had Univac, Colossus, ENIAC, and other giant computers!
So you’d argue that moore’s law is meaningless?
Or that faster computer/networks/AI/ does not compress time frames for action reaction?
You’d argue that not only is the rate of technological and scientific innovation not improving, it is not accelerating?
You think that all that is not happening on the battlefield? Not only is it not happening on the battlefield—its not happening anywhere else?
Wake me when anyone can prove they know everything about physics especially theoretical high energy physics.
agree. Theoretical high-energy physics has been asleep since the 1970s.
Better physics will be needed to reach the stars, but not to build a fusion reactor that generates electricity.
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