How Does Fusion Produce Energy?

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  • Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
  • What exactly are the mechanisms holding atoms together and why does bringing them together create energy?
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    Relevant Papers:
    On the Mechanism of Nucleon-Nucleon Attraction by Pion Exchange - doi.org/10.4236/jmp.2018.98090
    A reappraisal of the mechanism of pion exchange and its implications for the teaching of particle physics - hst-archive.web.cern.ch/archi...
    Origin and properties of strong inter-nucleon interactions - arxiv.org/pdf/1308.0103.pdf
    FUSION POWER BY MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT PROGRAM PLAN VOL I - fire.pppl.gov/us_fusion_plan_...
    Kinetic Energy to Temperatue - colab.research.google.com/dri...

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  • @DrDeuteron
    @DrDeuteron Год назад +227

    it's confinement, not containment.

    • @ButWhySci
      @ButWhySci  Год назад +136

      🤦🏻‍♂️Oops. Conceptually I understand why it wasn’t noticed. But that’s annoying.

    • @DrDeuteron
      @DrDeuteron Год назад +54

      @@ButWhySci nuclear containment (vessel) is more common than nucleon confinement. Neural net picks highest weight.
      As a young researcher I gave a talk to ten ppl, and the Nobel laureate in the front, “ nice talk, but it’s nuclear , not nuke u lar “. This was before face palm emojis.

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    • @ossiedunstan4419
      @ossiedunstan4419 10 месяцев назад

      Yes this is what happens when uneducated youtubers post rubbish on RUclips.
      What exactly are the mechanisms holding atoms together and why does bringing them together create energy? = This statement shows me you have no understanding of fusion.

    • @DrDeuteron
      @DrDeuteron 10 месяцев назад

      @@ossiedunstan4419 for me, atoms and nuclei are completely different things.

  • @varunahlawat9013
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    • @rumbecker5085
      @rumbecker5085 11 месяцев назад +1

      The chance that hydrogen will quantum tunnel is 1 in 10^28 that like winning powerball 3 times in a row. Since the sun has more than 10^57 hydrogen atoms, quantum tunneling is very probably. On earth when we do fusion, we are talking in the order of 10^23 atoms

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  • @slamdunksam2872
    @slamdunksam2872 Год назад +3

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  • @1224chrisng
    @1224chrisng Год назад +4

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    @Tesseract9630 Год назад

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  • @miinyoo
    @miinyoo Год назад +2

    That was magnificently well illustrated. For a visual person like me, I can see the equations in the animations even if abstractly, I don't really understand them on a purely mathematical basis. Using 3 dimensions in them is very helpful to breed an intuitive insight however, reality on this level is 4 dimensional so even though we're only considering ~2% of c, there is still a small effect of time and length(distance) relativistic effects. How to illustrate that specifically, I think you did without explicitly saying it but through implication that the probabilities are so unreasonably small yet with so many particles and such density, those effects emerge and have an on our human scale a significant impact. Like you know, existing at all.

  • @friguspersona
    @friguspersona Год назад +1

    I never knew fusion could be even more fascinating

  • @bonecanoe86
    @bonecanoe86 Год назад +5

    The fusion power plant in SimCity 2000 gave me the impression that fusion power was the future and inevitable.

    • @Canucklug
      @Canucklug 11 месяцев назад

      I think you get it in 2050, we might be faster

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    @Paraselene_Tao Год назад +4

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  • @lucak4013
    @lucak4013 7 месяцев назад

    i love this video. perhaps another title would give it more attention, cuz many people just think of fusion of a deuterium and a tritium nucleus to form a helium nucleus with the release of a neutron.
    But this is way more interesting. Your videos are incredible

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  • @dcolb121
    @dcolb121 9 месяцев назад

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    @Parapresdokian Год назад

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