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drjesusphd | 4 years ago

To be fair, the main reason instabilities are less of a concern is wrapped up in that B^4 scaling.

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dkbrk|4 years ago

I understand there's a bit more to it than that.

Here's the section in Professor Whyte's talk: https://youtu.be/KkpqA8yG9T4?t=2215

> It's even more subtle than that, in fact this is really one of the things we've studies at MIT, is that there's other things that come in terms of benefits, particularly when you make the magnetic field very high, it basically starts to tame, just all of the whole suite of plasma instabilities that exist.