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A shot of the pulse from within the reactor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMuOaTqdp4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMuOaTqdp4c
by davidrusu 5y ago
A shot of the pulse from within the reactor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMuOaTqdp4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMuOaTqdp4c
- darnfish 5y agoWhat would happen if you stood in that
- JulianChastain 5y agoYou would die
- Stevvo 5y agoYou contacting the plasma would cause it to collapse, but you would already by cooked. It's a chicken and egg question, because a plasma is never going to get started with a person inside; it needs a near perfect vacuum.
- rasz 5y agoNot the same thing, but Russian scientist tested a proton beam with his head and lived to tell the tale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
- nomel 5y agoIsn't the stream supposed to be in the middle, away from the melty bits?
- willis936 5y agoYes, but the really hot part is not emitting visible light. ;) If you're curious about why the bottom glows: ExB drift pushes electrons to the bottom. I'm sure that doesn't make sense, but unfortunately there isn't really a shortcut to understanding here. Some books are pretty accessible though (I'm a fan of The Future of Fusion Energy). https://ebrary.net/174598/mathematics/drift_motion_energetic_particles_tokamak https://ebrary.net/174598/mathematics/drift_motion_energetic... And, of course, there is always the freely available IAEA textbook: https://www.iaea.org/publications/8879/fusion-physics https://www.iaea.org/publications/8879/fusion-physics
- iLoveOncall 5y agoYou can tell when someone didn't read the article, because the video is at the very top of it :)
- ummonk 5y agoI read through the whole article and didn't realize the video was there until I read this comment chain. I had just glanced past the video assuming it was an ad.