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I’d have thought, but the Nuclear Fusion breakthrough actually caught me by surprise! That research had been making steady progress, but I didn’t really see much about it (outside of personal research) until the breakthrough actually occurred. I was primarily curious to see if anyone here was up to date on the topic whether though personal interest or being actively involved in the research.

From my understanding mass and energy both have an impact on AG potential, and the lack of sufficient energy (along with the superheavy elements) was a big barrier to further research. Another comment pointed out we’ve made it to 118 so far; if we can get Tokamaks to pump out significantly more than 6 water kettles worth of energy through NF, and solve the problem of the ridiculously short half-lives, I wonder what we’d manage to discover (related to AG or otherwise).

Absolutely a good point though, I guess we’ll just have to wait until the wave of clickbait hits before getting excited. No complaints here, we’ve had plenty of exciting breakthroughs this year as-is!

Thank you both for your elaborations! I actually didn’t even know we had made it as far as creating 118 yet, Moscovium was the last headliner I recalled.

It definitely makes sense that we won’t see much more funding in this field until tangible results are produced. Between the major expense required, and the (borderline) nonexistent results, I can see it being easily another few decades before we see any progress; that’s assuming it’s even possible.

My primary hope is that continued research on this might lead to some other amazing discoveries along the way. Gravity seems to be one of the most elusive concepts for us to expand on, but technology advances exponentially so fingers crossed we see some traction!

I’m not familiar with anything related to Lazar (not big on the conspiracy scene), but I agree he isn’t credible. My question was in relation to research actually conducted in the academic community, not his Area 51 nonsense.

The running idea that was last being looked into was that superheavy elements have the potential to bend spacetime, similar to how planets do (but obviously on a much smaller scale).