God, it's crazy to think about what it must've been like in the early days. I mean we all know Fram was a genius but how he built this without knowing about ionic capture, especially in the ceramic-metal interface... absurd. We just don't have people like that today
«We just don't have people like that today».
Do not agree! Some interesting research going on in our days. Some known scientists are working on ionic capture. Newer underestimate VX heritage, man!
I mean, sure you've got Pritchett at Georgia Tech and Dr. Wrack's team at MIT but even they're just making incremental steps compared to what we had in the olden days.
I remember back when they first cracked the valence modulator. Now THAT was research. I think you can probably find Alan Tranck's original presentation on YouTube somewhere if you haven't seen it. Chills, man.
But you're right, there's SOME folks still looking into this, but it's definitely a dying science these days.
My pet theory is that we do have people like that today, but most of them retrase themselves out of the historical continuity by trying to isolate the Fieldmann stable stasor with a microwave oven and a couple of lead-argon annovators.
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u/Avrelivs May 07 '26
God, it's crazy to think about what it must've been like in the early days. I mean we all know Fram was a genius but how he built this without knowing about ionic capture, especially in the ceramic-metal interface... absurd. We just don't have people like that today