Dense plasma for only £10?? Can plasma cannon become true?

[hellheaven1987]

Students and enthusiasts attending a recording for BBC Radio 4 have probably seen a new state of matter only recently discovered, an expert says.

The state of matter is a plasma like those in conventional nuclear fusion tests, but at higher densities.

And far from needing expensive apparatus, the conditions can be achieved in a simple glass tube containing a routine liquid.

The professor behind the demonstration says it can be achieved for a mere £10.

What Professor Putterman realised earlier this year is that under these peculiar circumstances a kind of electrical cascade can take place. If a few electrons escape the embrace of their home atoms, their field makes it easier for further electrons to escape, and so on until the entire bubble interior has become ionised.

"Not only is it creating a plasma," Professor Putterman explains, "we believe it's an new state of matter because it's an extremely dense plasma - the density is hundreds to ten thousand times the density they achieve inside nuclear fusion experiments."

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What do you think? Can this cheap technology be improved and adopted into plasma weapon system?

[visser300]

At first, I thought someone figure out how to make a plasma TV for ten bucks.

[Condottiere 40K]

Depends on screen size; wall-paper OLED is what we want.

[John Doe]

I don't know much about plasma, but something that is twice hotter than the sun's surface might be a little tricky to keep in a container of any sort.