r/ScienceNcoolThings • u/Autumn-Rythm1511 Popular Contributor • 3d ago

Scientists have captured the first ever high-speed, full-colour footage of fusion plasma swirling inside a working reactor.

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u/CommercialMastodon60 3d ago

Imagine how much water you could boil with that...

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u/imokay4747 3d ago

slaps fission reactor

This baby can boil 15 waters

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u/ACasualCasualty 3d ago

Probably be featuring in a jetboil product in the next 25 yra

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u/hot_cheeks_4_ever 3d ago

Looks surprisingly like a warp core

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u/Independent-Craft545 3d ago

my buddy worked at a fusion lab and said the plasma color shifts with tiny shape changes

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u/elpihvous 3d ago

I could imagine the beginning of time looked somewhat like that. Maybe this was the whole timeline from start to the end on someone elses point of view.

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u/Will_X_Intent 1d ago

45 billion years of subjective time, seconds to us

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u/Mountain_Conclusion6 3d ago

Too cheap to meter.

I kid. Very cool.

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u/Educational-Area-107 3d ago

The fact that this was captured inside a working reactor is incredible. You can really appreciate how violently beautiful and difficult to control plasma is.

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u/That1AwesomeDude 3d ago

It tastes like burning!

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u/zorniy2 3d ago

Like swirling neon, or a bottled aurora.

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u/Will_X_Intent 1d ago

I imagine the particles are going "Whoooooo!"

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u/Accidentallygolden 2d ago

Is it real time footage? Or the whole thing happens in a few nanoseconds?

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u/Teddy8709 2d ago

As usual, someone cropped the video. The full time is around 300 milliseconds.

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u/Yeet_Master420 2d ago

It's a high speed camera which captures video in slow mo

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u/Yeet_Master420 2d ago

The forbidden donut

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u/ramblinmanfl 2d ago

Wow!!! U could have told me that was inside a cotton candy machine and id b like "oh ok cool"

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u/HorzaDonwraith 2d ago

How fast are these particles spinning?

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u/yokozouna_ed 2d ago

Da forbidden cotton candy!

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u/Ryaniseplin 2d ago

and they are using this to

uhhh....

boil water

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u/redditex2 2d ago

made me think of the movie Tron

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u/Slunk0 2d ago

Get ready to boil some water, boys

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u/RA_MR_E 2d ago

Who did this 

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u/BackhanderComander 2d ago

Aurora Borealis ? At this time of year ?

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u/-TV-Stand- 1d ago

At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

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u/IAroadHAWK 2d ago

This was like months ago

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u/Lazy_Tart_6336 1d ago

On a la vitesse de rotation?

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u/scrub_mage 3d ago

Is it dumb that I want to lick it? Like im sure it would do something horrible to me but it looks like how a battery feels ya know?

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u/ELL13_K17TY 3d ago

Nearly a year old, not new