Recent content by RatTrap85

I wanted to thank you again. After a few days of reading and refreshing and then reading this material I think I have a pretty firm grasp on it. Surprisingly simple once you get the derivation and source for all the terms. I'm not sure that the materials I was reading lend themselves to...

You are truly amazing. Thank you

One more question if I may. Where should I look for information on the conditions of fusion. Obviously a self sustaining reaction on earth is the Holy Grail and would be nice but has proven to be almost impossible. On the other hand H-bombs prove that run away uncontrolled temporarily self...

Per one of your suggestions, I was reading up on Bethe and thinking I should probably dust off some of my old books to refresh my memory of a great many things. You are correct. I am going to have to do some refresher reading before I dive into this fully. Afterall if the foundation isn't...

Thank you very much for the rapid reply. That may be the single most helpful response I have ever seen in a forum. Concise, non-condescending, and actually addressed the questions. What a great experience for my first post to this forum. Thank you again. Now hopefully I have the brain...

Imagine you have a proton beam with sufficient speed say Xc to overcome the Coulomb Barrier for the element in use. The beam collides with a cloud of that element with density (rho) and thickness (l). Obviously you wouldn't achieve 100% fusion and if the cloud is dense enough the beam will...