What is the process of invention?

[Sophia]

Whenever a thread like this comes up, there are always two different responses. One side is encouraging him to ask more scientific questions. The other side is telling him to drop the attitude, to stop daydreaming and actually do science the way everybody does it. I believe both sides are necessary for him to hear.

Of course be needs to hear that he needs to study, get a degree and become a proper scientist. In this I fully agree with you. All I was objecting to was the way it was presented.

When I was 14-15 I wanted to work at NASA. I spent days trying to find the patterns in distances, size, and other properties between the planets. I wanted to discover position and characteristics of the 10th planet. A year later, when I got to high school, I discovered how stupid I actually am and that I will never be able to solve anything more difficult than primary school math problems. The life itself showed me the truth.
I think that OP will discover how things are on his own, too.

 

[mfb]

*edit* nevermind muon flux too low. :C

It would not work even with much higher muon flux.

Accelerating deuterium to 98% the speed of light needs 8 GeV per atom, that is a factor of >1000 (edit: fixed numbers) more than fusion releases. No accelerator and neutron energy capture mechanism is even close to be efficient enough to counter that.

The muons have a large spectrum in speed, direction and energy, most of your muons won't be at rest relative to deuterium.

Making a tube narrower doesn't work at those speeds, your muons and deuterium molecules would just bump into the wall, go through or produce showers of more particles.Those are three (four if you include muon flux) show-stoppers I noted before even finishing reading your post, and I am not a fusion expert. That is the true value of education: you can discard ideas that do not work quickly, and spend time on those that have a chance.

 

[Astronuc]

Accelerating deuterium to 98% the speed of light needs 8 GeV per molecule, that is a factor of ~500 more than fusion releases.

That's a doozy of a show stopper. The OP needs to study the physics behind the process. Proposing to accelerate each deuteron to ~ 8 GeV is way more than can be generated from a fusion reaction, which is ~3.27 to 4 MeV, which is ~1.6 to 2 MeV per deuteron, just won't work.

Also, the OP can read up on μ-catalyzed d,d-fusion.

 

[twiz_]

What I've learned so far after a week of activity:

PF is where social values and logic collide

 

[axmls]

What I've learned so far after a week of activity:

PF is where social values and logic collide

A lot of the, I guess you could say, harshness, comes from the fact that there are all too many people who come to PF who have not attempted to educate themselves and who are convinced they are the next Einstien [sic]. So, while we certainly have some people who are very encouraging, at the same time, there's a necessity as well for people who can be blunt and tell the posters that they need to do their research before speaking of grand ideas. I'm not talking in particular about this OP, because they don't seem like a crackpot. I'm just speaking in general terms.

 

[Drakkith]

Thread locked pending moderation.

 

[Evo]

After reading this thread, it should have been locked over 2 pages ago.