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Kitemansa,

Thanks. Much clearer now.

Then, if I get it right, any arrangement made with toroidal coils covering the surface of a virtual sphere would meet THIS criteria, correct? (3 or more coils, equal or different in size, their fields all north in, or all south in).

... the main feature of a Polywell is that there are an even number of faces (pairs of opposite polarity) around each vertex . The faces may be either all real, or half real and half virtual. But always two or more pairs of fields. Have to admit that I still fail to see the meaning of that. In a cu...

If you shrink the dodecahedron to the same size as the cube, each coil is going to have a smaller cross section and so carry a smaller maximum current. That will make the field at the centre smaller still. Smaller cross section, yes, but smaller diameter also, compensating, at least partially, the ...

with the wiffle ball critical to operation I'm not sure your calculation simplifications will solve the problem. I'm sure you're right, and that's why I'm not even aiming to solve the polywell problem, just seeking clues, and just for a very specific aspect of it. If we can get a grasp at the charg...

It is not the frame of reference that matters. It is the relative motion of the particles. Well, that depends on what you want to do. I was aiming to simplify calculations. Computing the relative influence of every pair of charges, and then translating them to a frame of reference attached to the d...

I'm reading the Feynman Physics lectures on electrostatics/magnetics and it is clear that such a computation is devilish hard for the reason that a particle's magnetic field is purely relative. If there is no relative motion between two particles there can be no magnetic field interaction between t...

Funny Cusps occur when multiple pairs of fields with opposing directions meet at a common vertex. This field configuration is a patented feature of Polywell systems. A funny cusp is generated when two or more conducters with current in opposite directions meet at the vertex and the receed. The curr...

I'm pretty sure it is well established that the weak spots are the centers of the facets and the corners. Regarding the workings of polywell very few thing are well stablished yet, and I don't think that's one of them. The little info we have about WB7 results may suggest otherwise, if not, why the...

Ok. It seems we have a disagreement here on terminology. The funny cusps are NOT at the corners of the cube. At the corners are the point cusps from the virtual out magnets. The things you call line cusps are where the funny cusps SHOULD be if the system were the true Polywell DrB stated that he wa...

Not an easy calculation, granted, ¿but impossible? I dont think its impossible, but I agree that, most probably, it's a case of a "non tractable" problem, in the computer science sense. That is, when you augment its size (in this case the number of particles), then the number of operations the compu...

I imagine constructing a coil/torus "..." and resting it against the corner. "..." This coil's current would be parallel to that pseudo-loop. That'd ruin confinement. ... deforming the magnetic fields could mean that the coils cant be made conformal to them By this logic, the fact that the toroidal...

I imagine constructing a coil/torus "..." and resting it against the corner. "..." This coil's current would be parallel to that pseudo-loop. There is at least one problem with that configuration. If you lay two parallel conductors, both carrying current in the same direction, there is a region bet...

Ok, a full computer simulation of a polywell is not doable but that does not mean that they are completely worthless. It is still possible to build virtual experiments involving particular (and very interesting) aspects of it. There are people here that have been doing exactly that with B and E fiel...

Glad this discussion ended alright.

WB-3 was scaled up ... I was able to push it to around 7 kV of drive voltage, but never to fusion conditions. Had we built it in the shape of WB6, ... I think we could have held quasi-steady state for many seconds. Redoing WB-3 in the shape of WB-6 should be cheap enough. Do you think it could be i...