NATHANRTAYLOR » ideas http://www.nathanrtaylor.com "Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it." Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:02:57 +0000 en hourly 1 I’d like to have been in the room… http://www.nathanrtaylor.com/id-like-to-have-been-in-the-room/ http://www.nathanrtaylor.com/id-like-to-have-been-in-the-room/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:18:52 +0000 Nathan http://www.nathanrtaylor.com/?p=573 toy_train_inside_fusion_reactor…When this solution was proposed.

I saw this post on Make Magazine’s Blog while sittingn Portland Brew with Daryl and Carolyn from the Mid TN SORBA (southern offroad bicycle association). We met today to discuss rebuilding the www.sorbamidtn.org website in Wordpress.

The Make Magazine article states that the scientists had attempted to calibrate the fusion reactor using a stationary neutron emitter, but it wasn’t accurate enough, hence the toy train, which increased the accuracy ten fold! This is genius at work. The ability to go fr0m high level technological work (calibrating a fusion reactor) to a decidedly low-brow solution (toy train). Sometimes the simplest solution is indeed the best.

Frequently when I find myself stuck looking for a solution to a difficult problem, I need an outside perspective to help crystallize the solution. I wonder if something similar happened here.

Read the original article here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/toy_train_used_to_calibrate_fusion.html

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