News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees. Parent comment

Re:Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees by labster on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @01:35AM (#18447995)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18004980 Calculations have been done in general about runaway fission/fusion already. Hawking showed that mini black holes "evaporate" very rapidly, before anyone would even notice.

As for some unexpected pathway, energies like this are reached in stars all the time, and they don't spontaneously explode on a regular basis. If you're talking about a basic science experiment being the Great Filter -- well, maybe. I'm skeptical.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees by saagarjha on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @01:41AM (#18448024)
> As for some unexpected pathway, energies like this are reached in stars all the time, and they don't spontaneously explode on a regular basis.

Well, they kind of do…

But really, the only reason why stars manage to stay in hydrostatic equilibrium is because of gravity, which we really can’t do on Earth so we settle for fancy magnetic confinement vessels.

[ Parent | on HN ]