TheTechnician27@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoMy chemistry professor after explaining that helium is colorless, odorless, non-toxic, and inert [Day 67]lemmy.worldimagemessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up1130arrow-down14
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minus-squareMrMobius linkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoPhysics professor: That’s not true! You can make nuclear fusion with helium-3 which doesn’t make the reactor core radioactive over time. And I think that’s cool!
minus-squaremumblerfish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoThat is a bit of cheating, speaking as a phycisist. We say “if we add enough energy to system X thing Y will happen” about almost everything. :-)
minus-squareMrMobius linkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoTrue and, speaking of nuclear fusion, it’s a big if. Given the amount of “enough energy” needed.
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Physics professor: That’s not true! You can make nuclear fusion with helium-3 which doesn’t make the reactor core radioactive over time. And I think that’s cool!
That is a bit of cheating, speaking as a phycisist. We say “if we add enough energy to system X thing Y will happen” about almost everything. :-)
True and, speaking of nuclear fusion, it’s a big if. Given the amount of “enough energy” needed.