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Physics is an ancient field, yet advances in technology are enabling more compact and innovative experimental platforms to tackle key scientific challenges. By rethinking traditional, large-scale infrastructures, we can accelerate our understanding of physical phenomena and their applications in cost-effective and agile ways.

R&D Gaps (7)

Traditional particle accelerators are enormous and costly, limiting experimental flexibility. Compact, benchtop accelerators could democratize high-energy physics and open new avenues in applications such as medical isotope production.

Many materials’ internal structures are difficult to image with current technologies, limiting our understanding of their properties at the nanoscale.

Stable plasma confinement is a major obstacle in achieving practical fusion energy. Advanced control systems and novel confinement techniques are needed.

There remains significant uncertainty over whether metallic hydrogen can exhibit room-temperature superconductivity at reasonable pressures, and measurements of other systems have been irreproducible and fragmented.

Quantum gravity remains elusive, with experimental constraints hindered by the need for extremely large-scale or prohibitively expensive experiments.

While low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs) have received substantial attention and there is no good evidence they exist, there may still be other mechanisms or parameter combinations that are underexplored.

Modeling turbulence remains one of the most challenging problems in physics due to its nonlinear and chaotic nature.

R&D Gaps (7)

Particle Accelerators Are Large and Expensive

Inadequate Imaging of Material Structures

Robust and Compact Plasma Confinement for Fusion is Still Not Solved

Uncertainty and Noise in the Science of Room-Temperature Superconductivity

Quantum Gravity is Experimentally Hard to Constrain

Incomplete Resolution of the Possibility of Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions

Inability to Model Turbulence