@micaluky (View Post)

 I think you mean hydrogen fusion.

When hydrogen gets to a certain pressure, it will 'explode' and turn into another element, depending on it's temperature.

What happens is that the photon ionizes the hydrogen by knocking its electron off. That is why you get an electron and a proton. Since you have ACEL accelerating the proton, it will collide with a second proton and create a PLUT particle. In other words, you have a fusion reaction occurring here. Fission would involve splitting the proton into two separate particles.

@micaluky (View Post)

 No, It's fusion. Fission is the splitting of an element into two different elements, also releasing energy. Hydrogen is for FUSION, since it fuses two elements (hydrogen) to form another one (helium, which is a noble gas, hence why it makes NBLE). You don't do hydrogen fission, because it's already the smallest element you can possibly get. What, did you think there was element 0.5 Hidonium?

Either that or you probably meant "Plutonium fission from hydrogen"

@PTuniverse (View Post)

 Thank you

@PTuniverse (View Post)

 or splitting the proton into its 3 respective quarks, which is nigh impossible :P

Not fission because it doesn't split into nuclei (which means Kydon is wrong too)

A clue may be in Hydrogen's old name, Protium- indicating that there is only a proton and no other neucleons in each atom. Isotopes like Deuterium and Tritium are used with radio lithium in fusion as their extra neutron(s) make them better fuels. Deuterium can be combined with another proton to make Helium 3 in a fusion process known as Deuterium burning. This happens in stars and the reason people want to mine Helium 3 on the moon is due to it being deposited there by the solar win over millenia. It is extraordinarily rare on earth because our magnetosphere protects us from the solar wind. All of these are fusion fuels, as are (theoretically) every radioactive fuel up to the proton weight of Iron. Iron is the last fusion material that can be used to create products with less enthalpy ie. the most proton heavy substance that can be fused to make energy, everything past it's proton weight of 26 needs more energy to fuse than it gives off.

Hope this helps, will answer any questions but bear in mind I only know up to post GCSE radioactive physics.

@KydonShadow (View Post)

 Isn't it supposed to be impossible to rip quarks from their partners?