MSimon wrote:Robthebob wrote:what do you guys think is the most probably amount of time for WB8 to once and for all confirm or deny if polywell works or not?
I'm just planning for grad school, need to know these things.
My best guess is 12 to 18 months.
Well good, that's about when i graduate from college, it would be nice if we got to know a little bit sooner.
chrismb wrote:Robthebob wrote:what do you guys think is the most probably amount of time for WB8 to once and for all confirm or deny if polywell works or not?
200,000 years.
It'll never be proven 'cos it won't work. "The cult of Polywell" will exist until we leave the planet. After that, "we" will then have total faith in whatever provided that energy source for propulsion, and finally the CoP will be discredited as a religion.
Sigh, get out of here, Chrismb. I'm still going into fusion after college, and I will figure out what I should go after if polywell doesnt work. It's not like I'm some complete believer. I mean there's always going to be people who believe something whole-heartedly regardless of what that something is. Just stop, I dont know why you're here picking fights and thinking we're all some idol worshipers or something. I mean having science based debates and opinions, that's great, but why are you so disapproving of our interest (especially when none of us have experimental data)?
The reason why they went ahead with the experiment is because, stated by Dr. Bussard, the amount of money to build cores and run experiments is cheaper than modeling. So they went ahead with that, great, wonderful. I mean it seems like none of us have the tech and expertise background in polywell to say that it will work or it will not work. There may only be 3 people in the world that have that background, 1 passed away, 2 is working at emc2. Award money and records can probably allow us to infer what's going on without the data. But seriously tho, how the crap are you so confident that it won't work? Cus the most knowledgable proponents of polywell will not say that it will definitely work, that's just so amazing.
Seriously, bring it down a notch. We're all reasonable people, if it doesnt work, we may want to see the data and talk to Dr. N ourselves, but other than that, if it doesnt work, it doesnt work. Sure, we would be disappointed, but we'll move on with our lives. I mean how did we have a 10+ page long thread about if it's mega watts or milli watts, and yes, it's mega watts, freaking get out of here.
Throwing my life away for this whole Fusion mess.