Totally unrealistic, I see it more like red dwarf when the match would get blown back towards you and set fire to your hair.
The Large Hadron Collider's latest antics
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Totally unrealistic, I see it more like red dwarf when the match would get blown back towards you and set fire to your hair.
.Don't forget that journalists, even at the Beeb, are often astonishingly ignorant of even the most basic science.
In 2009, for instance, they ran a story about an accident to a Navy submarine patrolling under the Arctic "leaving men trapped under hundreds of feet of ice!" The Arctic ice is generally about 15 feet thick, often less.
You have put your finger on the problem with fusion power. Creating the heat is easy - but power generation is forever "only thirty years away" because confining workable quantities in a box made of magnetic fields and plasma is quite a challenge.
The flagship science programme Horizon routinely demonstrates this. Sadly, it's not for want of trying, they get extremely famous people who are more than capable of explaining things given the air time (more so than the public or even the journalists may think). In the editing process it goes completely to pot.
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Married to Night Train
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They must have a canteen or something? Maybe you could be a dinner lady?
I should have know, that link was coming!
Mind you, I would have expected our very own local, Brighton-based, instance of same:
Or alternatively the recent disaster at Hastings:
upsidedown
Waiting for the great leap forward
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+1 for "why does e=mc2". I actually understand what he's on about for about a second before my brain has to discard it to make room for another piece of cleverness.
Best book without getting a textbook is The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose.
No, but it's nice to have an idea what it equates to. Some joke calculations show that the number of collisions a second for some scenarios might be about as powerful as a slightly underpowered kettle making a cup of tea for you, your infinite improbability drive and a friend.
the snail
Guru
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I should have know, that link was coming!
Mind you, I would have expected our very own local, Brighton-based, instance of same:
that must be why they didn't build it on a pier then?
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
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You pulling folk's legs there marinyork?
I read it through and boy oh boy did I feel inadequate
meenaghman
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Ah "pier today gone tomorrow".. just like LHC if we're to believe the doom mongers
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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Well I never...a picobarn is ten to the power of minus 40 square metres. Not very big at all.
Well I do recall being told that the reason a barn (10[sup]-28[/sup] m[sup]2[/sup]) is called a barn, is that, in the context of nuclear physics, it's "as big as a barn door". Honest - no kidding! Hence the sub-units...
