re: The Germans have built a Stellarator

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It means a black hole will be forming thus destroying the Earth...

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Why hasn't the Sun turned into a black hole yet?

damn thought this was a keg filled with stella

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When there is a head-on collision will it be like a bomb?


Do you actually know how a nuclear bomb works?

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To be fair, most people don't.

There is zero chance of a nuclear explosion due to the mechanics of how everything is put together. It is very very difficult to make a nuclear explosion happen - it is not something that happens accidentally.

A fission (not fusion) reactor can have an accidental meltdown but that is not an explosion. And if a fusion reactor like a tokamak loses magnetic containment it's actually very benign - it just stops working is all that happens. When I was a Physics student at UT-Austin we had a working tokamak in the basement of the physics building and it happened all the time.

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“The world is waiting to see if we get the confinement time and then hold it for a long pulse,”

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I figured Japan would have been all over this.

Your pic is too large. Can you please make it smaller?

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If it's basically unlimited then that'll make electricity really cheap

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cheap

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Why hasn't the Sun turned into a black hole yet?

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Only supermassive stars turn into black holes when they run out of fuel and collapse. The sun isn't nearly large enough to do that.

This may be the first time I've seen Germans mentioned in a thread on here that wasn't a shot at someone.