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Splitting hydrogen, one atom at a time by funky3000

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7th Aug 2018
11th Aug 2018
Was playing around with the idea of splitting hydrogen via protons, but on a small scale. Basically I wanted to find a way of producing and containing hydrogen in a way that *always* allowed the electron to be released
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Comments

  • funky3000
    funky3000     14th Aug 2018
    It's also not a photon reflecting or passing through. It's an electron that gets released after the hydrogen is split. The proton always goes straight, but the electron goes in a random direction
  • Technomancer
    Technomancer     14th Aug 2018
    @Xenarchus, there IS in fact a computer involved in this. Specifically, the one that you're running TPT on. THAT's the one that's running the calculation, not making a random choice, as part of TPT's code.
  • Xenarchus89
    Xenarchus89     13th Aug 2018
    Correction: when I was talking about photons in my comments, I meant electrons. Sorry for the confusion.
  • Xenarchus89
    Xenarchus89     13th Aug 2018
    My first comment, that is.
  • Xenarchus89
    Xenarchus89     13th Aug 2018
    @Justice also, the photon can take either path, since it is indivisable, and in the save it is either reflecting or passing through based on polarization, a lot like light refracting through calcite. Read my comment again.
  • Xenarchus89
    Xenarchus89     13th Aug 2018
    @Justice there is no computer involved in this save, and technically this is a random event on a fundamental level, I suppose. Are you familiar with quantum mechanics?
  • funky3000
    funky3000     12th Aug 2018
    Yeah, proton lasers have been around for a while. The difference here is that I'm allowing every electron to escape without running into a hydrogen or filter or anything else, to confirm that electrons are always released in a split.
  • magnetman33
    magnetman33     12th Aug 2018
    I used effect quite a while ago to make a proton laser
  • JusticeFighter
    JusticeFighter     11th Aug 2018
    This is not what is actually happening. What you see here is a result of a calculation that the computer does. In fact, it's a predictable calculation, it's not even a true random event.
  • Xenarchus89
    Xenarchus89     11th Aug 2018
    Im not positive if that's what actually happening, but if so, this could be quite a leap of science on TPT. If not, totally ignore that comment and dismiss me as somebody trying to look smart XD