But only a potential warning sign—fusion power is always 25 years away, but so is the decay of a Promethium-145 atom.
Right, but we expect that for the promethium atom. If physicists had predicted that a certain radioactive sample would decay in a fixed time, and they kept pushing up the time for when it would happen, and didn’t alter their hypotheses at all, I’d be very worried about the state of physics.
But only a potential warning sign—fusion power is always 25 years away, but so is the decay of a Promethium-145 atom.
Right, but we expect that for the promethium atom. If physicists had predicted that a certain radioactive sample would decay in a fixed time, and they kept pushing up the time for when it would happen, and didn’t alter their hypotheses at all, I’d be very worried about the state of physics.