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"Both the electron and the proton rotates around their mutual centre of mass. During each revolution a negative and a positive charge circles around the centre-of-mass." As I see it, due to the proton being significantly more massive than the electron, the latter moves further from centre of mass, c...

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-scientists-image-sea-monster-nuclear.html quote: (PhysOrg.com) -- A new X-ray imaging capability has taken pictures of a critical instability at the heart of Sandia's huge Z accelerator. The effort may help remove a major impediment in the worldwide, multidecade, ...

Given how elusive ordinary neutrinos are, a 'sterile' variety will be really difficult to pin down...

Also, there must be a LOT of them about...

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-thermonuclear-plasma-snowflake.html quote: While the conventional magnetic X-point divertor concept has existed for three decades, a very recent theoretical idea and supporting calculations by Dr. D.D. Ryutov from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have indica...

Looks like a small portion of the material has gone superconductive. Pinning down the responsible phase and making it reproducibly will *not* be easy. Then there's the issues about forming into usable shapes and its tolerance of magnetic fields, not to mention temperature cycling... Whatever, this l...

SSTO engineering and technical issues are very scary unless you pull a game-changer, like Reaction Engine's remarkably efficient heat exchanger...

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/heatex_man.html

Putting the power source on the ground does simplify things, of course...

That would be *real neat* alongside my Amateur Scientist CD-ROM and the stuff on Stirling engines, electrostatic machines etc etc...

I'd recommend a back-up magnetometer with a wider range, though. 50~~100 % head-room will let you monitor 'excursions' and transients without ambiguity...

I've been following this thread from time to time, wondering if there was any validity to BLP's notion of a 'lower quantum state' {my words} for hydrogen. As I understand it, common or garden hydrogen is 'collapsed' using a proprietary BLP catalyst, issuing lots of energy. The 'collapsed' hydrogen b...

Rather than resurrect a thread from July, here's a thought... The US LCAC and UK's SRN4 hover ferry (Rtd) would seem a fair match for a polywell's power, size and weight. Each vehicle could handle large, heavy loads ( Battle Tank, several dozen cars), each required thirsty engines, each could be con...

Uh, I don't think the deposit thickness would have much impact on neutron flux, but it might provide a self-healing 'front surface' for the wall etc.

Like halogen lamps' halogen trace 'heals' hot-spots on the filament and removes spatter on the glass ??

( Within limits, of course, of course'

Would you have any use for the microwave output, too ?

Aren't high-end drag-lines electric ? Most of those come in kit form, assembled from oversized modules on site. They'd be a good match for polywell...

I'm no physicist, but I must wonder if the pion is 'feeling' the charge separation in the proton's quarks...

FWIW, being 4% off in something so singular leads you to wonder what other surprises are lurking in the next decimal place of other atomic factors.

Much as it would prove a point, IMHO, you really, really do NOT want the very first WB break-even to be 'explosive'. Okay, like early steam-boilers, some prototype WBs are likely to disassemble uncontrollably, but the basic concept is as far from nuclear fission and its weapon potential as you can g...