We're Reactor Fuel!

[Tuckerfan]

Yeah, yeah, I know, stars are powered by fusion. Read the quote and then I’ll explain.

Nuclear fusion reactors could be used to study what the universe was like just after the big bang. So claims a physicist who noticed that the plasma created inside these reactors is distributed in a strikingly similar way to galaxies in today’s universe.

Nils Basse of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology does not normally concern himself with events in the early universe. Instead, he studies turbulence in the plasma created in fusion reactors. But when he chanced upon the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) - which is mapping a quarter of the sky in detail - he noticed something uncanny. The mathematical equation governing the distribution of voids and galaxies looks remarkably like the one describing the millimetre-sized knots and clots of plasma in the Wendelstein 7-AS “stellarator” fusion reactor in Garching, Germany (Physics Letters A, vol 340, p 456).

[Stoner Voice] So, like, what if the entire cosmos is simply the inside of some, like, giant fusion reactor, man? We could simply be the powerplant for some civilization. And like, our fusion reactors could be creating little universes man! Whoa! [/SV]

[The_Scrivener]

If it means we don’t have to worry about paying off our credit cards, then I’m all for it, dude.

[pesch]

Long as the answer’s still 42, I’m fine wit it.

[ParentalAdvisory]

I don’t see why not.

[TheOnlySaneOne]

@pesch

Long as the answer’s still 42, I’m fine wit it.

So what would that make the Question? “How many terawatts per second do we put out?”

[Tuckerfan]

@TheOnlySaneOne

So what would that make the Question? “How many terawatts per second do we put out?”

Dude! Do you know what happens if somebody figures out the Question? The entire universe uncreates itself!

[Wonko_The_Sane]

@Tuckerfan

Dude! Do you know what happens if somebody figures out the Question? The entire universe uncreates itself!

And gets replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable…

[swampbear]

@Wonko The Sane

And gets replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable…

Even more bizarre and inexplicable that Paris Hilton? :eek:

[Cornelius_Tuggerson]

@Wonko The Sane

And gets replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable…

Some of us believe this has already happenned… Many times over.

[UncleRojelio]

@faldureon

Some of us believe this has already happenned… Many times over.

Even more bizarre and inexplicable that Paris Hilton?

QED