The Key to Nuclear Fusion?
One of the most difficult challenges in the development of viable nuclear fusion reactors is the stability of plasmas. It is difficult and requires an enormous amount of energy to confine plasmas long enough to produce nuclear fusion reactions that are capable of actually extracting energy, and most approaches require complex classical feedback control loops.
I've written about cybernetics feedback and control loops and how they are deployed to stabilize the economy or scale up AI architectures inefficiently (and eventually fail) and how the physics of the way in which the brain achieves self referential feedback (backpropagation) might be different, and the same sort of physics might be implicated here.
The crux of the proposal is that the critical line of the Riemann zeta function is actually a stability condition or quantum phase transition threshold in these systems - and so if physics can be exploited to drive the spectral statistics of the plasma to this stability condition from first principles, then most of the expensive and inefficient classical cybernetics controls used for plasma confinement can be discarded in favor of a much more elegant, simple solution. I've bounced this connection between plasma turbulence and the RZF off of Ed Witten, Dr. Florian Neukart at the WEF, and Dr. Migdal at the IAS in previous conversations, and what is interesting is that holographic limits imposed by gravity (as an entropic force) itself through the Ryu-Takayanagi formula might establish and enforce this stability condition and control macroscopic quantumlike chaos in these systems.
Rather than harnessing gravity as a force, which is energetically prohibitive, it may be possible instead to harness gravity itself as a feedback mechanism. In nature gravity is not only a force but nature's most efficient optimizer and feedback loop which establishes fundamental limits to spacetime - and this same mechanism may be the missing physics that could be used to lock plasmas' spectral characteristics into the stability condition delineated by the RZF critical line.
I've considered this possibility over the years and even added the idea into the discussion section of my 2025 IPI Letters paper. That's why I was surprised when I found the monograph of Dosseh-Kpotogbey, Robert who seems to have arrived independently at the same conclusion. Given that the Department of Energy has increased funds that they are allocating towards studying Nuclear energy, I intend to use this opportunity to finance the MILLENNIUM Project:
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