Hello From The Polywell Blog

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Hello From The Polywell Blog

Postby Matt Moynihan » Thu Nov 05, 2015 5:22 pm

Hello Everyone,

My name is Dr. Matt Moynihan. I got a PhD working on subsystems for the National Ignition Facility in 2013. From 2006 to 2013 I was a PhD student working at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics. My thesis was chaired by Riccardo Betti, winner of the 2012 Edward Teller award.

I started following the Polywell and fusors in 2008. At that time, I could not openly talk about my interest in this topic, as the Lab discouraged the IEC field as a "Waste of time".

Hence, I founded "The Polywell Blog" under the pen name John Smith in October 2009. I worked from 9 to 5 on my PhD and spent nights and weekends developing the blog.

To date I have created:
15 films on the polywell
36 Posts on fusors, polywells, fusion, ect..
2 dozen Wikipedia articles on fusion

Here are some of my other profiles:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-matthew ... 70/ab1/147
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JohnSmithT ... lGuy/posts\
https://www.quora.com/profile/Matthew-J-Moynihan
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Re: Hello From The Polywell Blog

Postby Paul Schatzkin » Sat Nov 07, 2015 10:51 am

Hello Dr. Matt, nice to see you here.

This statement in your post piques my curiosity:

I started following the Polywell and fusors in 2008. At that time, I could not openly talk about my interest in this topic, as the Lab discouraged the IEC field as a "Waste of time".


Care to elaborate? Are you at liberty to divulge? Or are you still under some kind of employment related "gag order" (using the term loosely) ?

I always find such statements curious, since they seem to reflect a certain, hmm... rigidity of thinking? ... in a realm that would seem to demand as much flexibility and open mindedness as frail human psyches can muster.

A "waste of time." Did the proponents of this conclusion ever substantiate the claim?

--P
Paul Schatzkin, aka "The Perfesser" – Founder and Host of Fusor.net
Author of The Boy Who Invented Television - http://farnovision.com/book.html
"Fusion is not 20 years in the future; it's 50 years in the past and we missed it."
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Re: Hello From The Polywell Blog

Postby Doug Coulter » Sun Nov 08, 2015 4:38 pm

You wouldn't be the same "John Smith" who has made a few relatively intelligent comments on my youtube stuff, would you?
Posting as just me, not as the forum owner. Everything I say is "in my opinion" and YMMV -- which should go for everyone without saying.
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