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Re:In Vienna and Beijing, the First (Thorium) Nuclear Clocks... by spockz on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:06PM (#50009536)
Will we at Some point start slamming two stars into eachother to make gold pressed platinum bars? Or will the energy expenditure required for that be sufficient to create gold and platinum straight?
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Re:In Vienna and Beijing, the First (Thorium) Nuclear Clocks... by post-it on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:15PM (#50009692)
That's sort of the question that all nuclear fusion projects are trying to answer: can you replicate the processes that happen in a star without having a star?
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