[QUOTE]A 13-year-old boy from Preston has become the youngest person ever to successfully carry out atomic fusion.
Jamie Edwards built a nuclear reactor before successfully smashing two hydrogen atoms together, making helium through nuclear fusion.[/QUOTE]
Source: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26450494[/url]
Video in link.
I used to know this kid. It's a pretty big deal for my school. He has got an all expenses paid trip to New York to appear on the Letterman show, the school is scheduled for a visit by Prince Andrew and our headmaster was invited onto the One Show.
I know this is nearly 20 days late but I haven't seen anyone else put this up so I am.
Alternate, text source: [url]http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jamie-edwards-becomes-youngest-person-3210181[/url]
If he's capable of building a makeshift fusion reactor, he's DEFINITELY a smart lad.
A real life Tony Stark.
my biggest accomplishment when i was 13 was hitting the wall opposite of me when ejaculating. i'd say this reactor is probably equal to that
[QUOTE=ironman17;44310838]If he's capable of building a makeshift fusion reactor, he's DEFINITELY a smart lad.[/QUOTE]
He is. He did his brothers homework.
His brother was doing a GCSE science task and the kid was in Year 5 (9-10)
My biggest accomplishment when I was thirteen was developing a powerful resistance to chemical warfare.
Why rate friendly? I'm ahead of the game if shit starts to fly.
Let's just hope this goes better than David Hahn's attempt.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn[/url]
[QUOTE=GeneralMastiff;44310889]Let's just hope this goes better than David Hahn's attempt.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn[/url][/QUOTE]
Might wanna fix that link.
This did go well, he created fusion.
Jeez, my biggest science related accomplishment at 13 was shocking myself with 20kV from a TV flyback transformer
Problem is it's using commercial grade kit, anyone with a smidgen of scientific knowhow and the money to buy the kit could do it.. he just happens to be the youngest that [I]has[/I] done it.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;44310840]A real life Tony Stark.[/QUOTE][B]in a CAAAAVE
[I]with a BOX of SCRAAAAPS[/I][/B]
He has autism spectrum or something, surely?
[QUOTE=jediken21;44311229]He has autism spectrum or something, surely?[/QUOTE]
or for all we know it might be the second coming of Commander Keen.
[QUOTE=jediken21;44311229]He has autism spectrum or something, surely?[/QUOTE]
Misconception, they are plenty of 'savants' who are perfectly ordinary people (besides being able to do these incredible mental feats).
[QUOTE=jediken21;44311229]He has autism spectrum or something, surely?[/QUOTE]
Hey you! Yes you! Screw you man.
Also sad that it was a kit, I would have loved to see this guy build one from scratch.
[QUOTE=jediken21;44311229]He has autism spectrum or something, surely?[/QUOTE]
huh?
I made model rockets and set a field on fire once when I was 13.
I was more concerned with no-scoping n00bs when I was 13
[QUOTE=Dysgalt;44311373]I made model rockets and set a field on fire once when I was 13.[/QUOTE]
Sign me up for the next launch, Doc Goddard! :v:
some time ago i read this story about a guy making something like that from the Americium that's inside smoke detectors.
i can tell you , that did not end well for him. Radiation burns everywhere.
To bad i cant find the story :(
[QUOTE=scorpinat;44311555]some time ago i read this story about a guy making something like that from the Americium that's inside smoke detectors.
i can tell you , that did not end well for him. Radiation burns everywhere.
To bad i cant find the story :([/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn[/url]
Around that age i was planning on somthing like that, even started up buying the parts, never happened however as i could not afford the Steel chamber (at around £2000 is all i could find)
I still have the Diffusion pumps and high voltage gear i was planning to use to do it.
Russia is interested.
They are.
A russian news company is coming into school next week.
[editline]21st March 2014[/editline]
I think he will mysteriously go missing in an unmarked black van and wake up in crimea in a week
I wasn't aware you could buy a commercial nuclear fusion kit
Edit:
[url]http://instructables.com/id/Build-A-Fusion-Reactor/[/url]
Oh wow, I didn't even have to go on the Deepweb
[QUOTE=ironman17;44310838]If he's capable of building a makeshift fusion reactor, he's DEFINITELY a smart lad.[/QUOTE]
or an evil genius
[QUOTE=Ericson666;44312709]I wasn't aware you could buy a commercial nuclear fusion kit
Edit:
[url]http://instructables.com/id/Build-A-Fusion-Reactor/[/url]
Oh wow, I didn't even have to go on the Deepweb[/QUOTE]
It's completely legal and harmless (except for the massive amounts of electricity you have to put in).
-snipper snarper-
[QUOTE=nuttyboffin;44311988]Around that age i was planning on somthing like that, even started up buying the parts, never happened however as i could not afford the Steel chamber (at around £2000 is all i could find)
I still have the Diffusion pumps and high voltage gear i was planning to use to do it.[/QUOTE]
FP Nuclear Energy is slightly more cost-intensive than FP Space Program, but I'm sure with all our technical expertise we could do it.
Admittedly I'd follow a CANDU design because heavy water purification is (much) easier than uranium enrichment. And Pentium is sitting on a load of uranium ore out in Kelowna.
[editline]21st March 2014[/editline]
Let's ignore the fact operating a nuclear reactor is strictly illegal tin the MetroVancouver area and BC in general and uranium mining in the Okanagan is also not permitted to my knowledge.
[QUOTE=supersnail11;44312769]It's completely legal and harmless (except for the massive amounts of electricity you have to put in).[/QUOTE]
It isn't even a massive amount of energy, its just a high voltage at a low current, he is likely using less then a toaster's power usage for the actual power into it, probibly a 500-1500W more for the vacuum pump and diffiusion pump. So still less then the power supply of a single 13A socket.
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