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minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down8·6 days agoWhen your result breaks the laws of physics, you need to check your measurements and maths just to be sure. Better yet, have others do it for you.
minus-squareteft@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·6 days agoThis isn’t a physics breaking finding. It’s breaking the Greenwald density limit in tokamaks. Some other types of fusions reactors can go above this limit by 2-5 times. It’s more a limit in our understanding not a hard physical limit.
minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down1·6 days agoGotta love science reporters. “Thought to be impossible.” “A 747 jet took off from New York’s Kennedy airport this morning, accomplishing a feat once thought to be impossible.”
minus-squareThunderQueen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoAh yes, technically correct
minus-squareSlovene@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 days ago“On this planet we obey the laws of physics!”
When your result breaks the laws of physics, you need to check your measurements and maths just to be sure. Better yet, have others do it for you.
This isn’t a physics breaking finding. It’s breaking the Greenwald density limit in tokamaks. Some other types of fusions reactors can go above this limit by 2-5 times.
It’s more a limit in our understanding not a hard physical limit.
Gotta love science reporters. “Thought to be impossible.”
“A 747 jet took off from New York’s Kennedy airport this morning, accomplishing a feat once thought to be impossible.”
Ah yes, technically correct
“On this planet we obey the laws of physics!”