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creating fusion with sound waves (or shock waves, which is essentially what sound becomes at high enough energy) is one of the crazier ideas I've heard..
by Aperocky 6y ago
creating fusion with sound waves (or shock waves, which is essentially what sound becomes at high enough energy) is one of the crazier ideas I've heard..
- eximius 6y agoIt's literally one of the ways they make nuclear bombs so it isn't that crazy.
- Aperocky 6y agoWell yeah, if your shock waves for fusion are created by nuclear fission chain reaction that technology has been quite ready and mature since the 1960s.
- stochtastic 6y agoSonofusion [0] was a neat idea, and some of the relevant experiments (at least the cavitation part) can be done on a bench top with a hobbyist level budget. Last I checked, the research had been somewhat tarnished by academic fraud. The physics of jet formation during bubble collapse near a solid boundary remains fascinating [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_fusion [1] https://authors.library.caltech.edu/48933/1/On%20the%20Mechanism%20of%20Cavitation%20Damage%20by%20Nonhemispherical%20Cavities%20Collapsing%20in%20Contact%20With%20a%20Solid%20Boundary.pdf https://authors.library.caltech.edu/48933/1/On%20the%20Mecha...