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can you run a fusion reactor in reverse so that it produces any element you want using electricity?

>> No.8807160
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>>8807139
yes

>> No.8807175

>>8807139
You wouldn't run it in reverse. You run it normally and it will produce heavier elements.

>> No.8807197

>>8807175
What if I wanted hydrogen?

>> No.8807222

>>8807175
can you make gold at a profit?

>> No.8807897

>>8807197
Maybe try using a particle accelerator instead.

>> No.8808310

>>8807222
Fusion stops at iron normally. Gold is made in supernovas. If you could make a cold fusion supernova generator using like 60 flux capacitors and a top spin singularity to offset the temporal invariance magnetosphere you could possibly commutate the electrons and neutrons through jargon manipulation and create gold... in theory.

>> No.8808314

>>8807197
Fission is reverse fusion brah. Just start splitting some shit and see where it goes.

>> No.8808362

>>8807222

Make it yes, at a profit no. Gold is rare on Earth but there are massive asteroids made of it floating around in space, it would be far easier to go up and get one of those than try to produce gold on anything like a useful scale using known techniques.

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>>8808314
Yeah, let's just see where it goes.

>> No.8808637

>>8808613

Nukes only explode because their kilogram+ of ultra fissile material cores are detonated by a massive ring of regular explosives to "kick it off". The only thing that will happen if you manage fission at home is that you will give yourself cancer from all the radiation.

>> No.8809431

>>8807139
That would be a Fission reactor. Look no further than your nearest Atomic bomb.

>> No.8809449

what if I want to turn a bunch of energy into matter how I do that?

>> No.8809457

>>8809449
I'll trade you, but the price is pretty steep. You'll have to divide by the speed of light squared

>> No.8809460

>>8809449
Magic

>> No.8809469

>>8809457
>>8809460
if all the nergy from the universe comes from matter then what happen when there is no matter left?

>> No.8809484

>>8809469
matter can't be made or destroyed so that question has no answer. However, once all energy is used up in a few trillion years, everything will just come to a stop, aka heat death where all matter is at it's lowest energy state. Essentially, since nothing can interact, nothing happens so in a way time comes to a total stop.

>> No.8809504

>>8809484
then what's the point of anything?

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>>8809504
There's your problem; you think that the Universe has an inherent 'point' to it. Nope! We're just a transient collection of molecules in an infinitely expanding gaseous void that will degrade constantly before slowing down and stopping forever.

>> No.8809521

>>8809517
But I wanted to have children and they can have kids forever and there is peace.

>> No.8809545

>>8808310
>People will actually think he's making sense.
I giggled.

>> No.8809578

>>8808310
>jargon manipulation
I see what you did there.

>> No.8809745

>>8808310
>flux capacitor

libyans!

>> No.8809749

>>8809521
Have you heard of entropy?

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>>8808310

>> No.8810129

>>8808310
>flux capacitor
???
>singularity
???
>Jargon
Ohh he's messing with the brainlets.

>> No.8810275

>>8809449

Get to photosynthesizing

>> No.8810281

>>8808310
Yes but it would require 1.21 gigawatts of power

>> No.8810374

>>8809484
Then what happens in matter antimatter collision?

>> No.8811703

You arrive in the 1800s in a fucked up Delorean

>> No.8811707

>>8808362
They can make diamonds though so who cares for gold?

>> No.8812516

>>8808310
Quality.

>> No.8813075

>>8809517
your answer make me sad :((