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By scooby

On Dec. 5, 2022, a team of researchers at the United States National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California recorded data indicating that it had achieved a nuclear fusion reaction that created more energy than it took to produce. The reported results were the first of their kind.

 https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Fusion-Breakthrough-Could-Spark-AI-and-Quantum-Computing-Boom.html


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Anonymous said…
A lot of fusion happened immediately following the big bang, that would have been first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis
2/12/2024 10:50 AM
Anonymous said…
Also what about aliens they must have have very similar accomplishments, assuming we are not the only life in the universe.
2/12/2024 7:04 PM
Anonymous said…
Suppose the universe is a simulation, we may be players in a video game, and NIF's accomplishment will unlock some additional prizes, just as CERN produced the modern internet:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation/

https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web

By the way I am a physicist, so I'm qualified to mix metaphysics with physics as is the fashion these days!
2/13/2024 4:42 AM
Anonymous said…

Ok a serous post.

What on earth does NIF, ITER or another fusion breakthrough have to do with quantum computing?
These are completely different topics that no scientific overlap at all. A big breakthrough in fusion will no consequence on if quantum computers can work or not. If they do they can work on the standard energy we use today not fusion generated energy.

The story was just silly on science level. Maybe on some weird hype level non-scientists this
sounds like it all be connected. By the way quantum computing is also a hype filled field, it could be big if it works but so far we have not solved a single problem with these early versions
of quantum computers that are not solvable with classical computers. This could change in coming years and progress is being made, but the amount of hype is rather high.

If NIF works and can give free unlimited energy to everyone it is pretty irrelevant to quantum computing. The only thing that NIF and quantum computing have in common is degree ofhype. It is more justified in quantum computing. NIF is not about nor has ever been about creating a new energy source. Like it or not fusion energy sources are a long way off if ever. Large scale quantum computing devices with real computational advantages is much more likely in the not too distance future.
















2/14/2024 4:17 PM
Anonymous said…
The article states that AI will require massive amounts of power and then makes a tenuous link between NIF results and the future of unlimited clean power from fusion power plants. Interestingly enough, it didn't promote windmills and solar energy for that AI power. So, maybe AI knows that the green energy can't meet the needs.

Or

It's a silly article written by AI.
2/16/2024 8:48 AM
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