Sentences with phrase «strong magnetic fields until»

The breakthrough is in magnetic confinement fusion, in which hydrogen is heated until it is a plasma 10 times hotter than the centre of the sun, and held in place by strong magnetic fields until fusion reactions occur.

Not exact matches

Until now, they believed the ions came from Jupiter's magnetosphere, the region in which the planet's magnetic field is strong enough to deflect the «solar wind,» a stream of particles emitted by the sun.

Until the mid-2000s, the quantum Hall effect and other topological effects had been seen only in the presence of strong magnetic fields.

Until Uchiyama and his team's discovery, however, magnetic fields strong enough to create cosmic rays had never been directly detected.