Jacob Shymanski
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3,186 appearances
30 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 6 Jul
Jacob Shymanski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So my takeaway that I'd like to end with is that this is not academic, right?
This isn't just, oh, isn't that interesting?
This little mystery is solved.
There's a much larger implication.
The dust in this plasma may not be just passive debris as we thought.
It could become an important part of plasma physics itself.
This could matter anywhere in the solar system or the universe where dust and plasma coexist around stars, planets, moons, comets, spacecraft, even industrial plasma reactors.
It could potentially impact future moon or asteroid missions, right?
It could help predict how fine dust moves.
how this dust sticks to equipment and interferes with instruments.
That would be critical information in many scenarios.
It could improve our understanding of space weather.
I mean, that could actually save lives potentially.
And closer to Earth, this isn't all just taking place well beyond the Earth.
On the Earth itself, this kind of information could help with semiconductor manufacturing and plasma etching.
And the one that I was interested in here is that this charged dust...
may help us understand and control this, you know, this boundary layer of fusion plasmas, like if you have a tokamak, you've got plasma, but that plasma is within a magnetic field, but it's also within these walls, and it's really damaging to the walls, and it actually creates this dirty plasma.
Now, in this scenario, this would be an impurity.
You do not want
You do not want this type of dust within your TACOMAC reactor because that's not going to, you know, having the dust there is not going to make it hotter like it might do in the solar corona.
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