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originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: smurfy
originally posted by: chr0naut
A Tokomak is a containment environment for a high energy plasma.
The LHC is a number of accelerators and sensors that collide particles and look at the remnants.
Both are significantly different than each other.
The goal of ITER is to produce a sustainable fusion reaction in a captive plasma with more energy output than input (potentially for energy generation purposes), not to probe the nature of reality as does the LHC.
Your assumption that they are the same is likely the source of your confusion.
As for CERN in these times, let the privateers pay for waving their Bosons about!
They are both containment for high energy particles.
I didn't say they were the same when the purposes are the opposite, I was talking about the containment.
My confusion, is about the huge amount of money involved, and the politics behind that again, and a lack of commonality by way of these bespoke projects, each of which could end up as dead ducks, especially ITER, with $20billion and rising which could end up down the swanee, when there are other fusion projects already ongoing like the National Ignition Facility, Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) which use lasers as a tool for fusion, and are not magnetic confinement instruments.
Al this when much of the world is in austerity economies, with little sign of it ending. It would be great if ITER worked in ten years time, but still it would be decades before something came on line. If the laser guys are ahead though?
Big science relies on big investment and we need the big science because all the low budget stuff can only go so far.
originally posted by: Rosinitiate
Good on her! Turning an array into 3-D is very fitting for a young mind.
Plasma tubes eh? Wonder what they be good for?
For example...the tubes are reported to be generally 600km up, inside the ionosphere, but also reaching the ground (and areas of the sea) following the magnetic field lines of the planet...could an aircraft be destroyed if it came to close to where one of these tubes emanate or touch down?
Could an aircraft interacting or intersecting these ionised plasma tubes suffer a communications failure, and effectively disappear...like MH370 and many other disappearances, such as the infamous Bermuda triangle (and various others on earth)?
originally posted by: PlanetXisHERE
Very cool discovery. Done by someone who hadn't yet succumbed to the pressure of conformity in the scientific world.
For over 60 years, scientists believed these structures existed
originally posted by: PlanetXisHERE
Very cool discovery. Done by someone who hadn't yet succumbed to the pressure of conformity in the scientific world
originally posted by: wmd_2008
originally posted by: PlanetXisHERE
Very cool discovery. Done by someone who hadn't yet succumbed to the pressure of conformity in the scientific world.
Really X from the linked article
For over 60 years, scientists believed these structures existed
originally posted by: wildespace
originally posted by: PlanetXisHERE
Very cool discovery. Done by someone who hadn't yet succumbed to the pressure of conformity in the scientific world
As hard as it is to comprehend for you, a lot of the progress of our knowledge and even some revolutionary develpments happen within the mainstream circles, thanks to their rigorous application of the scientific method, and the foundation of all the scientific knowledge accumulated in the last few hundreds of years.
Have the non-mainstream/pseudoscience/metaphysical "experts" ever given anything useful to the humanity?
originally posted by: wildespace
a reply to: PlanetXisHERE
And yet those breakthroughs or advances were confirmed or brought to life in the scientific way, by the mainstream scientists. If it works, science discovers it; if it doesn't, it remains the arena of pseudoscience and speculation (like Nibiru).
What you wrote about scientists being motivated by power or money is your personal opinion and can also be disproven.
It is faulty logic to state that, because many important discoveries or advances were initially ridiculed in the scientific circles, modern ideas or speculations that are being ridiculed by scientists must be valid.
originally posted by: PlanetXisHERE
originally posted by: wildespace
a reply to: PlanetXisHERE
And yet those breakthroughs or advances were confirmed or brought to life in the scientific way, by the mainstream scientists. If it works, science discovers it; if it doesn't, it remains the arena of pseudoscience and speculation (like Nibiru).
What you wrote about scientists being motivated by power or money is your personal opinion and can also be disproven.
It is faulty logic to state that, because many important discoveries or advances were initially ridiculed in the scientific circles, modern ideas or speculations that are being ridiculed by scientists must be valid.
I never said anything negative about the scientific method, it works.
I just said many initial anomalies that eventually led to breakthroughs in science have been ignored or explained away at first as they threatened the established order, mainstream science often ignored the scientific method and did not pursue anomalies, though such anomalies often lead to a scientific breakthrough. This is fact and just human nature so I don't know why you are getting you undergarments in such a bunch; it is also why good scientists guard against bias especially confirmation bias.
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