Oh wow! Thank you for this! I clearly didn't understand the mechanism that Alexander was discussing, definitely not that the change the atom was sufficient for it to effectively self-fuse and release the muon afterwards.
So all we need for a Mr Fusion on our Delorean is a portable muon gun. :P
IIRC creating muons is not that hard, but the fusion ratio was too small anyway. I still think combining it with some weak containment might work… I guess it doesn't and this is why it's not worked on anymore
Yeah I don't know anything at all but it does make me wonder if you could use the energy created by the muon-catalyzed fusion to push a lower-temp hot plasma into fusing over the edge. Almost like hierarchical catalysis of fusion.
Again per your observation, if it had any value we would do it so i'm missing one to many major things. I just enjoy thinking about it.
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Oh wow! Thank you for this! I clearly didn't understand the mechanism that Alexander was discussing, definitely not that the change the atom was sufficient for it to effectively self-fuse and release the muon afterwards.
So all we need for a Mr Fusion on our Delorean is a portable muon gun. :P
Edit: Video from MinutePhysics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDfB3gnxRhc
IIRC creating muons is not that hard, but the fusion ratio was too small anyway. I still think combining it with some weak containment might work… I guess it doesn't and this is why it's not worked on anymore
Yeah I don't know anything at all but it does make me wonder if you could use the energy created by the muon-catalyzed fusion to push a lower-temp hot plasma into fusing over the edge. Almost like hierarchical catalysis of fusion.
Again per your observation, if it had any value we would do it so i'm missing one to many major things. I just enjoy thinking about it.