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Re:The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keepin... by hliyan on Saturday November 04, 2017 @06:55AM (#15624516)
Despite the fact that a bottom quark fusion event emits 18 times the energy of traditional fusion (deuterium nuclei), the discoverers note that it's not possible to create a chain reaction of bottom quark fusions. So there are no military applications (or energy applications for that matter).
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Re:The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keepin... by tzs on Saturday November 04, 2017 @07:14AM (#15624554)
To put it in terms more relatable to ordinary life, the energy given off by one of these events is approximately 0.0000000000000061 watt-hours. That is about how much energy a typical LED light bulb uses in 2.5 picoseconds.

Without a chain reaction, it is hard to think of any way that this could be used to cause any noticeable effect at all anywhere outside of a particle accelerator facility.

OT: my God, the dictionary that Firefox 57 uses by default on MacOS sucks. Neither "relatable" nor "picosecond" are in it!

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Re:The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keepin... by otp124 on Saturday November 04, 2017 @07:15AM (#15624556)
> a bottom quark fusion event emits 18 times the energy of traditional fusion

Small correction. The article says the MeV is 8x not 18x

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Re:The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keepin... by hliyan on Saturday November 04, 2017 @08:58AM (#15624796)
Ah, I stand corrected.
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