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Government-Funded Alchemy

Examining Marathon Fusion's "Scalable Chrysopoeia"

Marathon’s new website, as they come out of stealth, drops a preprint called “Scalable Chrysopoeia via (n, 2n) Reactions Driven by Deuterium-Tritium Fusion Neutrons.” They also announced this with their first tweet(or perhaps just a recently cleaned slate) on an account they created last July. This is quite challenging for me to evaluate, but my base rates on new alchemical approaches are quite low, and we’ll learn more after their preprint goes through peer review and is looked at by smart fusion scientists and theoretical physicists around the world. After millennia of alchemy being a brain worm-generating, scientific red herring for generations of scientists from Hellenistic Alexandria to Isaac Newton, suddenly it could become a critical component of the future energy ecosystem of our world?

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