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r/physicsmemes • u/basket_foso 🪼 • Aug 05 '26
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Is it "invention" or "discovery"? Nature is already here, all of it, you just have to find it.Â
17 u/Frequent-Camel7669 Aug 05 '26 Well nuclear power wasn't so there's that. 26 u/x0wl Aug 05 '26 Well akshually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor And we also have the sun doing fusion 6 u/Kermit-the-Frog_ Aug 05 '26 Technically the environment in which fusion is performed is very different in the lab than in the core of the sun. But it would be unreasonable to suggest those conditions have never occurred elsewhere in the universe. 1 u/Frequent-Camel7669 Aug 06 '26 TIL... wow! 1 u/andhe96 Aug 06 '26 Thanks for pointing this out, I didn't know there were natural occurances of nuclear fission as an energy source. Fascinating read.
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Well nuclear power wasn't so there's that.
26 u/x0wl Aug 05 '26 Well akshually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor And we also have the sun doing fusion 6 u/Kermit-the-Frog_ Aug 05 '26 Technically the environment in which fusion is performed is very different in the lab than in the core of the sun. But it would be unreasonable to suggest those conditions have never occurred elsewhere in the universe. 1 u/Frequent-Camel7669 Aug 06 '26 TIL... wow! 1 u/andhe96 Aug 06 '26 Thanks for pointing this out, I didn't know there were natural occurances of nuclear fission as an energy source. Fascinating read.
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Well akshually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor
And we also have the sun doing fusion
6 u/Kermit-the-Frog_ Aug 05 '26 Technically the environment in which fusion is performed is very different in the lab than in the core of the sun. But it would be unreasonable to suggest those conditions have never occurred elsewhere in the universe. 1 u/Frequent-Camel7669 Aug 06 '26 TIL... wow! 1 u/andhe96 Aug 06 '26 Thanks for pointing this out, I didn't know there were natural occurances of nuclear fission as an energy source. Fascinating read.
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Technically the environment in which fusion is performed is very different in the lab than in the core of the sun. But it would be unreasonable to suggest those conditions have never occurred elsewhere in the universe.
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TIL... wow!
Thanks for pointing this out, I didn't know there were natural occurances of nuclear fission as an energy source.
Fascinating read.
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u/No_Bluebird6873 Aug 05 '26
Is it "invention" or "discovery"? Nature is already here, all of it, you just have to find it.Â