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Assuming you could get around the material and engineering problems with anything at high pressures what would happen if you kept pressurizing helium past a super solid state. If the pressures where high enough would you have a similar effect to metallic hydrogen with it behaving as a degenerate...

Summary: I was reading that the most powerful gamma ray burst experienced a 'drag' due to quantum turbulence and wondered how this could effect a plasma. After reading this Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRB_080916C I noticed the part about how the light was slowed down by the...

I assume any two isotopes you want, Sorry I meant to say tau catalyzed fusion reactions. I figured the larger particle would act like a large muon and aid in larger nuclei reactions.

Today I was reading about super heavy elements and was wondering if a tau lepton could be used to synthesize SHE's? As a side note, as relativity is applied to hypothetical SHE's Would you not end in a black hole as a limit to possible elements? and maybe a way to calculate and predict quantum...

But the isotope its bound to isn't. Not even sure if such a element exists with a useful half life and decay type.

I am certainly not qualified to really comment on this subject, but I have been playing around with some ideas on how to confine neutrons to the interior of a nuclear reactor. I was wondering if there was a way to capture a emitted neutron from a reaction with a selected isotope that would be...