Recent content by Bengey

Which program, and do you know if that's giving them better results?

Though I knew on one level that it's about nuclei, I was imagining squeezing atoms. While we could try that, we'd only create molecules; we don't have the tech to squeeze nuclei. Thanks.

Maybe that's it. I was thinking about squeezing atoms together, not nucleii. Though I still think the space between two intersecting planes goes to zero.

Would the first problem go away if you're dealing with very small amounts? If I'm right about needing only on the order of .1MeV, that doesn't seem diamond-shattering. On the other hand the diffusion issue seems more serious. Or would a speedy operation get around that?

1. I'm guessing that smaller pellets would give instabilities less time to develop. Alignment issues yes, but that's just engineering. 2. The business end of a pair of scissors goes down to zero spacing, no? The challenge is whether a practical device could be designed, but again that's just...

What I'm asking is whether some kind of mechanical confinement can achieve the goal. We've made great advances in nanotechnology, why not nano-nutcrackers to squeeze atoms together? As for laser fusion, wouldn't that also be easier to achieve with micro or nano-sized fuel pellets?

Two questions: 1. When blasting fuel pellets with lasers, wouldn't it be easier to use really small pellets, on the micro scale? 2. Instead of magnetic or inertial confinement, could we try mechanical confinement? I mean put some deuterium in a vice, like a nutcracker, a few atoms at a time. I...

No, I'm looking for a device to mechanically overcome the Coulomb force for just a few atoms at a time, avoiding high temp and pressure. I believe the energy needed is on the order of .1MeV

Would it be possible to mechanically trap deuterium and tritum atoms and squeeze them together in a nutcracker type device to fuse them? I believe we have technology to manipulate individual atoms, or at least small quantities, and it should be possible to get them into a vise. This would avoid...

Four definitions of mass ? Things have changed since I took physics classes ! Can space-time curvature really maintain itself without anything inside ? Or is it just the distinction between matter and mass, so you mean the mass is still necessary to maintain the curvature ? How did the...

Thinking about how so much matter can be squeezed into a singularity, the answer (if I understand correctly) is that the matter just stacks upon itself down an infinitely long weird space-time well. In a sense, the last item in masks the ones below. But doesn't this impact the gravitational...