The video claims Z-pinches are dead—killed by instabilities. But Copilot counters: Experiments like ZaP and FuZE have demonstrated that axial flow shear can suppress MHD instabilities (kink and sausage modes), enabling stable, long-lived plasma columns. Who do we trust?
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