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I actually think you have to go so slow that your (probable) position extends to the other side of the wall. Unfortunately speeds that slow are incompatible with (the processes of) life.

Nope, the Aussies quantum entangled whole atoms, and were able to do a Bell test on objects with rest mass. It’s news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp9n5QwVgu4

BTW, before a detector aparatus can be created, many physics results were (are?) identified through observation, which might include a measurement or might be qualitative.

It’s Goodhart’s Law.

IIRC, most of the people that actually work at ITER don’t expect to live to see commercial fusion.

We’ve achieved controlled ignition several times, but there’s a lot of steps still between that and delivering fusion power to your local grid, and I don’t think I would trust anyone to give a concrete timeline.

I really thought Polywell Fusion would be the trick, but Australians (and probably the US DoD) have good evidence it doesn’t “scale” in a way that will give a energy-positive/fuel-negative cycle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell#University_of_Sydney_experiments

https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/rads-watts too.

But yeah, steam turbines are remarkably efficient and if you are designing a reactor today, you definitely assume one of them will be used.