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2Physics Quote:
"Many of the molecules found by ROSINA DFMS in the coma of comet 67P are compatible with the idea that comets delivered key molecules for prebiotic chemistry throughout the solar system and in particular to the early Earth increasing drastically the concentration of life-related chemicals by impact on a closed water body. The fact that glycine was most probably formed on dust grains in the presolar stage also makes these molecules somehow universal, which means that what happened in the solar system could probably happen elsewhere in the Universe."
-- Kathrin Altwegg and the ROSINA Team
(Read Full Article: "Glycine, an Amino Acid and Other Prebiotic Molecules in Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko" )

Saturday, September 03, 2005

'Inertial Confinement'

The "inertial confinement" technique uses lasers or ion beams rather than
magnets to confine the plasma. This will be investigated by the National
Ignition Facility (NIF) in the US and the Laser Mégajoule (LMJ) in France.
However, both these billion-dollar lasers will primarily be used for nuclear
-weapons research, with only 15% of their time being available for other
areas of physics. In this conventional approach to inertial confinement, the
lasers that compress the fuel capsule also heat it.

Some useful links on this topic:
http://fusion.gat.com/icf/concept/
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/thyd/icf/IFE.html


posted by Quark @ 6:28 AM     

2 Comments:

At 11:19 PM, Blogger Vijay said...

Hi,

Can you post some links and details about such topics.

IMO, it really doesn't serve the purpose when your posts are this short. Just my 2 cents.

 
At 11:09 AM, Blogger Vijay said...

Thanks for the links. The link to ucb IFE details the whole concept and the programme with the limitations behind it.

I really appreciate your effort !

 

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