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Huh, okay then.

3He + 3He -> 2p + 4He + 12.85 MeV ?

The 3He-3He fuel cycle releases protons and alpha particles, plus 12.9 MeV of energy. No matter where I look, I can't find any information about how that 12.9 MeV is distributed over the fusion products, every source just quotes the 12.9 total. Does anyone know how this energy tends to be...

I always took it to mean that space and time were not necessarily created in the big bang, but they were so distorted and wrought out of shape by the initial singularity that they were not meaningful concepts 'before' the big bang occurred. Of course, we'll probably need a theory of...

So what you're saying is, aside from a few reactions, and discounting synchrotron and braking radiation, the equations are right and the energy generally is carried as kinetic energy? The sources I read must have been referring to bremsstrahlung x-rays. That explains why I wasn't able to find...

Lots of articles and papers I read talk about the gamma rays produced during fusion reactions. And yet, when I look at equations for fuel cycles, the sum of the energies of the fusion products equals the total energy liberated. Since this implies that all of the energy released in the fusion...