Groundbreaking 'quarksplosion' discovery can make ten times as much energy as nuclear fusion

DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 7 November 2017 | CHEYENNE MACDONALD

[sparklite2]

Study found elementary particles called quarks release energy when fused

Certain types can produce eight times more energy than hydrogen fusion

It's so powerful that the researchers at first hesitated to publish the work

[Secret Agent Man]

Lets all now work to build a q-bomb.

[Redcitizen]

” It’s so powerful that the researchers at first hesitated to publish the work”

They hesitated because they did not want their work to be used in military applications. If it works, lets use it for a better bomb.

[Blood of Tyrants]

After further calculations, however, they found that they could not produce chain reactions with quarks, as they quickly decay into smaller, less dangerous particles.

So in other words, it is interesting but useless.

[2001convSVT]

Cold Q-fusion? Perhaps real cold fusion in a few years.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Wake me when the shuttle lands.

[Paladin2]

Where do I get my Mr. Quark-splosion?

I’ve been looking for my free Atomic Energy since the late 50s.

[Stand W]

Where’s my flying car, dang it! It’s 2017!

[fella]

What could go wrong?

[dblshot]

This "Q-Bomb" has a theoretical explosive potential greater than all the nuclear weapons of the United States and the Soviet Union combined. The invaders from Fenwick are sighted by a civil defence squad and are immediately taken to be "men from Mars" when their mail armor is mistaken for reptilian skin. The Mouse That Roared

[Snickering Hound]

Rule of Acquisition #74: Knowledge = Profit

[sagar]

“If it works, lets use it for a better bomb.”

All true scientific discoveries should be classified.

[Trumpet 1]

Any chance it could be used to generate energy to boil water to power a steam turbine to generate electricity?! Just saying, affordable energy is an economic gift for all of humanity. It empowers the poverty people with the ability to persue the concepts of life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness. And of course in the wrong hands...The Big Boom.

[17th Miss Regt]

It empowers the poverty people with the ability to pursue the concepts of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

And provides a way out of economic slavery?

Democrats will never approve!

[sparklite2]

Heh. Very good. Here’s your gold pressed latinum.

[Kickass Conservative]

Remember the Night Gallery episode where William Windom played a Scientist who was grieving over the death of his Daughter?

He invents a Weapon that creates Nuclear Fission without the need for Radioactive Elements.

It didn’t end well.

[ETL]

“Study found elementary particles called quarks release energy when fused...Certain types can produce eight times more energy than hydrogen fusion”

They’re going to keep monkeying around with these fundamental particles and forces until they annihilate the whole friggin universe! :0

[BenLurkin]

Or power a starship.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Q-Bomb from THE MOUSE THAT ROARED! Wonder how many others will catch it.

[Redcitizen]

Now that it’s been discovered, I would say yes its possible. Some astounding engineering and we could have a good source of affordable power.