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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

  • Xenarchus89
    Xenarchus89     11th Aug 2018
    Amazing. Did you know you just discovered a quantum mechanic inadvertently? This isnt important to the mechanism, but the single photons, or 'quanta' of light are either reflecting off the hydrogen or splitting it. This is in agreeance with quantum physics, in which a quantum of light has two possible pathes because it is technically an elementary quantum field interaction particle.
  • Chillz
    Chillz     11th Aug 2018
    I can see why this made front page, but my posts were as good as this and should be on front page..... Go check my tubular posts out.
  • funky3000
    funky3000     11th Aug 2018
    Created a bulk test for splitting hydrogen under fusion conditions to test the probability of it splitting or fusing in the very next frame. After 10 runs of an array of 100 tests, or 1000 total tests, I calculated a 1.6% chance for it to fuse and a 98.4% chance to split, but now that it's saved and I can just reload it instead of pasting it, I can run more tests more efficiently, perhaps could do 100 runs of the array for 10000 tests.
  • kerponaut
    kerponaut     10th Aug 2018
    I catuaally have tried doing an reactor in this way once... i failed. +1
  • Raszy
    Raszy     10th Aug 2018
    it seems to be and up dog
  • funky3000
    funky3000     10th Aug 2018
    @DUC ahh, didn't notice that one. Figured you guys were talking about prot and elec not combining
  • DUC
    DUC     10th Aug 2018
    @funky3000 That's basically what I said :P
  • wownslwnwo
    wownslwnwo     10th Aug 2018
    NICEEEEEEEEEEEE
  • funky3000
    funky3000     10th Aug 2018
    Just discovered a thing. Fusion produces photons that have a TMP of 1. Photons with a TMP of 1 are unable to split hydrogen.
  • funky3000
    funky3000     10th Aug 2018
    I've done some experiments with the limits of hydrogen splitting. Being separately heated or pressurized still allows it to split, and even both for just straight up fusion conditions allows hydrogen to split. So now I'm left wondering why I never see protons form during fusion, or even from my infinite fusion devices that constantly form new hydrogen which should at least have a small chance to be split by a photon formed during active fusion, but yet never see any.