Small Suns

Fusion reactors on Earth have failed so far in producing more energy out than the energy that goes in. Kris Krogh mentions in his paper "A New View of the Universe", that similarly to germs fighting antibiotics, new instabilities develop as deeper magnetic wells are produced to contain them.

Imagine a situation in which the well is not magnetic, but gravitational as with the Sun. Little concentrations of mass that keep every matter particle in, due to their weight. If one can make those particles move fast enough, maybe by electromagnetic beams from Earth, without getting them out of their gravity well, maybe they could fuse, and produce more energy than we spend to energize them there. I know that the gravity force is much weaker than the electric-magnetic force, but maybe if we play with the strength of gravity it can be done. Maybe Gravity is so weak, according to Gia Dvali, because there are a huge number of copies of the particles we know. My point is that with better understanding of the forces we have, maybe we can engineer artificial stars.

I write about Dvali's idea here.

Of course this is the way stars are born, without the help of external beams to energize them though, just gravity. Maybe it is possible to make artificial stars. With so many billions of dollars used for fusion research, maybe a little bit could be directed to kill this idea. A first try of the idea is to simulate a strong gravity well with trapped electrically charged particles subjected to electromagnetic kicks.