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  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzWHY???
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    4 days ago

    It’s less weird when you realize it’s not a hexagon, it’s a sine wave in cylindrical coordinates. There are a lot of negative feedback loops such that a sine wave can turn into a standing wave. You just have to get a little lucky with a couple important things like your rossby number et voila, hexagon.



  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzsame shit every day, on god
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    6 days ago

    Fusion releases a daughter particle and a neutron. The daughter particle is much larger and will deposit its energy back into the plasma, the neutron will travel much further until it hits a collector outside the chamber, heating it up, which will heat water. You don’t get to decide which direction the neutron goes, so you have to build this collector around the entire thing.