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In brief: As a simple consequence of Coulomb's Law, coupled with an upper limit for the potential and a lower limit for the density, non-neutral structures in a polywell reactor can never be bigger than a few microns. Forgive me for asking what may be a completely dumb question, but why does this a...

I was looking at the diagram tombo posted which shows extensive shadowing from the magrid and have a (probably) dumb question. Seems to me like the reacting core of a functional unit will be non-zero in size. The shadowing assumption in the diagram shows the rays as all radiating from the exact cent...

Maybe I'm missing something, but if the alpha's are +2 charged, won't they tend to escape the magrid in an orderly fashion through coils? After all, they should follow the magnetic field lines in the opposite direction of the recirculating electrons to some degree. Seems like there will be six beams...