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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
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