Mastodawn

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🧵🌐 The hairy ball #theorem says you can’t comb a #sphere smooth without a cowlick somewhere.

The same rule explains why #Earth always has a #cyclone spinning, why #fusion reactors use #doughnut shapes, and why omnidirectional antennas can’t exist. #Wind patterns over the #Arctic and #Antarctic circles illustrate the proof.

👉 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-maths-hairy-ball-theorem-could-explain-bad-hair-days/

#topology #math #weather #hurricane #nuclearfusion #tokamak #plasma #science #hair

How math's 'hairy ball theorem' could explain bad hair days

An idea from topology explains why you can never get rid of your cowlicks—and, oddly enough, it’s critical in nuclear fusion

Scientific American

Hackaday [Unofficial]4d ago

Less Than 10 Years? Commonwealth Fusion Systems Applies to Plug into Grid in 2030s

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/06/07/less-than-10-years-commonwealth-fusion-systems-applies-to-plug-into-grid-in-2030s/

13 4d ago

Less Than 10 Years? Commonwealth Fusion Systems Applies to Plug into Grid in 2030s https://hackaday.com/2026/06/07/less-than-10-years-commonwealth-fusion-systems-applies-to-plug-into-grid-in-2030s/
#Science #CommonwealthFusionSystems #Energygrid #Nuclearfusion

Less Than 10 Years? Commonwealth Fusion Systems Applies To Plug Into Grid In 2030s

Whenever the topic of fusion power comes up, someone will say it’s only 10 years away from commercialization in an excited tone, and someone older or more cynical will point out that it&#8217…

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Online Marketing Scoops May 30

Helion Energy Is Building A Fusion Power Plant. Can Its Technology Deliver?

Helion Just east of Malaga, Wash. a farm town in apple country the Columbia River runs between basalt bluffs past the Rock Island Dam, which has turned water into electricity for the Pacific Northwest since 1933. Now, on a flat stretch of land nearby, a very different kind of power project is taking shape. Helion Energy, one of the world’s best-funded private fusion companies, is building what it calls Orion: A machine it says will become the world’s first fusion power plant.....Continue […]

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/05/30/helion-energy-is-building-a-fusion-power-plant-can-its-technology-deliver/

Helion Energy Is Building A Fusion Power Plant. Can Its Technology Deliver?

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Philo Sophies May 19

🌞#Sun – The billion-year energy scandal!⚡

The #Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #ThomasNaumann and Dr. #IljaBohnet focuses precisely on such fundamental #unansweredquestions in #science:

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/10/26/zoomposium-naumann-bohnet-das-raetselhafte-universum/

📺https://youtu.be/k22eSYJgPD0

#NuclearFusion #Physics #Cosmology #Energy #Einstein #TheoryOfRelativity #OpenQuestions #DarkMatter #StringTheory #Metaphysics #DESY #PhilosophyOfScience #Universe #Cosmos #FineTuning #Research #Science #Philosophy #Astrophysics #NuclearPhysics

Flipboard Science Desk May 11

The United States Army's Trinity test was the world’s first test of a nuclear bomb and a pivotal moment in human history. More than 80 years later, scientists are still learning new things from the early morning blast in New Mexico. Like the crystal forged during the detonation that wouldn’t otherwise exist on Earth. More from @ScienceAlert:

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#Science #NuclearFusion #History #Physics