December 2002 Archives

I posted an article a while ago on the news group sci.physics.fusion regarding ion acoustic standing waves in a spherically contained plasma.  Basically, I wanted to find out what research had been done in this area.  It's been sitting there for several days without a reply.  So I posted a more detailed message in sci.physics.plasma, hoping that perhaps that was a more appropriate newsgroup.  The posting hasn't showed up yet.  There might be some problem with the moderator's email, as nothing has shown up since Dec 24th.  Oh well.  What's strange about the lack of reply to my sci.physics.fusion posting is just that.  Usually when someone posts something really stupid on these forums, someone is always ready to point out the idiocy - sometimes nicely, most of the time with a rather sharp pointy stick.  But nothing.  Strange.  Hopefully my posting to the plasma newsgroup will produce some response and some pointers.  I've been spending a lot of time trying to find out all I can about analyzing and modeling these types of standing waves, but to no avail.  It's very strange.

Figured out why the magnetic cage, combined with ion guns isn't a problem for ICC.  Well, at least I've managed to fool myself into thinking it isn't a problem.

Well, fusor.net got hacked.  It was working last night.  Found the message "HACKED BY ION !!! Mad_Skater was here !".  Hope the site was backed up or mirrored somewhere.  If not, it will be a tremendous loss.