Recent content by Cosmos2001

As far as I can understand, the stability problem happens mainly with neutral plasma, and does not occur with non-neutral plasma, because non-neutral plasma and ionized gas can be confined endlessly by electric and magnetic fields in a penning trap configuration. IMHO, I think the tokamak...

It is needed just few kilowatts to ionize fusion fuel. If there is no electrical contact between the plasma and the chamber then there is no electric current thereby no power consumption at this point. Anyway, a small current of hyper-fast particles is better than nothing. Unlike tokamaks...

I understood “particle scattering is inherent in the process”, “scattering occurs at the particle level”, then it is almost impossible that all colliding atoms will fuse with each other; it will always remain some unburned fuel. However, “narrowing the beam simply means increasing the particle...

Can the problem of scattering be minimized to get more fusion reactions, if the beams are focused by quadrupole magnets to collide more frontally with each other under strong radial pressures inside superconducting electromagnets?

I think the tokamak-based design ITER will hardly meet the necessary conditions to fuse deuterium and tritium. I believe the best option for aneutronic fusion still is electrostatic acceleration because it is much more energy-efficient than the tokamak magnetic compression, and some...

The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) has been a hope for Mars exploration up to now. http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/travelinginspace/future_propulsion.html However, there are newer plasma thrusters coming up:

I’m not a cold fusion enthusiast, expert or defender, but as far as can perceive, people still don’t understand how it is possible the ions to pass through the coulomb barrier to fuse. I believe the answer can be the electron capture followed by beta decay...

A quadrupole ion trap, or Paul Trap, uses oscillating AC electric fields to trap ions. Perhaps it could be reshaped to geometry of the inner grid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrupole_ion_trap

Phase-shifted electrodynamic propulsion is a conceptual idea for long journeys in deep space using only electricity.

Photon doesn’t have any mass, but it has momentum. Momentum is the product of the mass and velocity (p=mv) It seems contradictory. Is there an explanation for this, such as an interaction with something else?

Photon can behave as either particle or wave. It exerts a force when it hit an object, losing energy after that. Could it be because one of the wave half-cycle is mediating interaction between the interstellar medium and the object?

DaleSpam, frankly, you are impossible. I know an array of dipoles is not equal to a multiphase linear motor, but they are similar in some aspects. I know energy moves from the primary to the secondary at the speed of light, but the velocity of moving electric/magnetic fields can be adjustable...

In a multiphasic linear motor, if (v<c), energy move at the phase velocity, it is hard to refute this; I think is a true fact for (v<c) because without this the linear motor would not work. My hypothesis is, if (v>c), the energy will move forcedly at the phase velocity, facing relativistic...

I’m sorry; it is difficult to me to express it in a clearer form. Now, I’m not trying to violate “nothing can move faster than light”; I’m trying to use it as support. The energy in each dipole will never travel faster than c, but the overall energy moving along the array length will be...

In an initial case, v is more the velocity of the “moving electrodynamic wave packet” that is being generated by the array of dipoles that is adjustable v=Lf (ref.: multiphase linear motors) The array of dipoles is that which have mass and is to be accelerated. I was anticipating the...