[rmbyrro]

In 100,000 years from now, after we're past the next ice age, archeologists will unearth tokamaks all around the world. Regular people will speculate aliens and a worldwide connection between the peoples of the world to explain the multiple occurrences.

They'll have unlimited energy based on some quantum shit.

[cryptonector]

They'll either wonder at our stupidity, or they'll wonder what they missed since it will appear to them that maybe we got it working.

[rmbyrro]

Tokamaks will look to them as pyramids and mummies look to ourselves today.

[philipwhiuk]

They will assume they are religious centres like the stone circles found elsewhere. In 100,000 years, the difference between 2000AD and 3000BC is quite small.

[m463]

> They'll have unlimited energy based on

...probably mining the center of the earth after finding it is methane or similar like thomas gold theorized, something like jupiter.

[Qwertious]

The centre of the earth is iron, it's how compasses work.

[pfdietz]

Note that this is not because the iron there is ferromagnetic (iron loses its ferromagnetism at its Curie temperature, which is far below the temperature of the Earth's core) but because the iron there is liquid, and convection in the core, interacting with magnetic fields, induces electrical currents that generate the field, the "geodynamo". This process is highly nonlinear and not well understood.

[nvader]

Hopefully nobody reads this comment of mine, but there's something I've been drying to get off my chest.

With no evidence, I believe that there is a quantum computing algorithm for fusion. It feels like there might be some way of using quantum computers to fuse "qubits" in such a way as to generate netenergy, one particle at a time.

But of course, ancients fantasized a boat could land on the moon.

[tsimionescu]

You can't get energy out of computation. This follows directly from mathematical principles and the definition of energy.