Armageddon

原作: 上海アリス幻樂団
原曲: 霊知の太陽信仰 ～ Nuclear Fusion

Event: 東方音弾遊戯9

[transcendentspider]

I still remember the comment that said "Chernobyl chan"

[GeorgeCowsert]

I had no idea this was a touhou thing until months later.
I literally thought this was some abstract art piece about nuclear warfare.

[RuneTacticss]

Ah yes love it when Touhou characters casually spawn entire moons and suns in and throw them around as if they were nothing

[NOIR]

Calamity FortuneといいWizdomiotといい
LeaFさんの東方アレンジほんとすき
他にもMARENOLとか…神曲しか作らないなこの人

[crowedarken]

This looks like a war propaganda from a nuclear powered bird.

Oh wait.

[Tohorazen]

Touhou 11 if Reimu didn't solve the incident

[初心者を極めし者]

お空ちゃんかっこよくて可愛くて、
ムービーが人工太陽やら信仰っぽいのを表現したりしてて、
原曲を残しつつLeafが出てて
大好き

[mineteam]

optie is just flexing with his computers render capabilities

[uyk]

Every single frame of this can be a desktop wallpaper ngl.

[franzdaboi]

you know your work is amazing when even people outside the intended fandom gets amazed by it

[melodymizuki.]

Okuu should've been 2020's final boss

[ordinary_magician]

My guess on what’s happening:
• Okuu gains a massive following
• She coups Japan
• There is attempted foreign intervention
• *attempted*

[YuzuClem]

There are 2 sides of touhou fandom.

One circle that makes amazing animation, music, and games.

While on the other end are some of the most stupidest, nonsensical memes.

And I love them both.

[Magike_Kenner]

This animation is within the realms of excellence. The best thing of all of this is that precisely today I have spent a substantial amount of hours doing a "propaganda poster"* about Project ITER, a project which aims to tame Nuclear Fusion to produce Energy for the Betterment of Mankind.
Needless to say, I directly included Utsuho in my poster, and I feel I was inspired by her to enbody it as I have done.
And then, several hours after finishing the poster, I find this video. This lightful experience.


I see the connections between what I have just worked on and the video. This leads me to infer the author possesses at least moderate knowledge about Nuclear Fusion in general.


Some references:


0:01 - The Sun itself is shown. Project ITER aims to reproduce the Thermonuclear reaction that happens in the core of the Sun to produce much more Energy that the one produced by Nuclear Fission, and also producing less radioactive waste.


0:02 - In this very quick and brief dance of lights and effects I can see waves, which is clearly related to Physics. If I am to correlate these forms with ITER, I would think of the Magnetic Field that is generated by the central solenoid and other powerful magnets that are needed to control the plasma within the void space of the reactor.


0:03 - There is a frame which appears very shortly, effectively showing the Nuclear Fusion reaction that ITER wants to achieve:
Deuterium + Tritium --> 4^ He + 1^ n (14MeV)
This clearly shows that whoever did this video knows what Nuclear Fusion is about and probably is also aware of ITER's existence and purpose.
Deuterium is a Hydrogen isotope with an Mass Number of 2 (A=2). Tritium has 2 neutrons, so A=3. In nuclear reactions, just like in chemical reactions, the mass of the products should be the same as the mass of the reactants. Indeed, this is the case for our reaction: The sum of A in the reactants is 5, as is in the products.
However, there is an Energy outburst associated with the process. This is explained by Einstein's formula: E = m*c^2. The Energy produced in the process is due to the fact that a fraction of the mass has been converted into Energy. Empirically, it is found that the net measured mass of the reactants is greater than that of the products.


0:23 - All those screens and what appears to be "lines of code" in the previous images is very possibly a reference to the future Fusion plants. After all, computer will facilitate the process of controlling multiple security and precision aspects to ensure the process as a whole goes well. Another of ITER's goals is to investigate how future Fusion plants would operate, once Nuclear Fusion has been proved to be a feasible way to obtain Energy.
The concentric circles in the monitors also remind me of the Magnetic Field lines.



0:46 - A trip through mountain-like or river-like waves. It makes me think of superconductors, which in turn are related to computers and electricity, needed to control the Fusion reactor.


0:47 - The Deuterium and Tritium nuclei are close enough to fuse thanks to the Nuclear Force, instead of being repelled by the Electric Forces between the protons of the two nuclei. Fusion of Deuterium and Tritium, yielding a 4^ He nucleus, a neutron, and a considerable amount of Energy.


0:48-0:49 - This may be a representation of the sudden liberation of Energy, but it resembles more the Magnetic Field lines.


0:51 - A clear representation of the power of the previously mentioned released Energy. This time it seems destructive, as if it were the child of a bomb.


1:02 - Okuu is gradually hailed across all Japan for being the 1st human to truly dominate the powers of Nuclear Fusion for the Advancement of Progress and human industrial activities.


1:08 - Some foreign country threatens Japan because of increasing and menacing interest of acquiring this powerful, novel technology. War breaks loose.


1:22 - In her secret subterranean base, Okuu identifies the aggressors and decides to unleash the power within the atoms upon her foes.


1:52 - This is a representation of the Sun and what it appears to be its Magnetic Field. But I dare to say such "Magnetic Field" around the Sun strongly resembles the plasma particles within ITER's tokamak void, doughnut-shaped chamber, where Nuclear Fusion occurs at temperatures of 1.5*10^8ºC (150 000 000ºC).


----
This wonderful beauty...


I never have enough Physics.



ーーーー
Update 05/3/2022: 2 full years have passed since this comment was made, and many things have unfolded in the world and in my life since then... What can I say? I dearly hope that ITER can really fulfill their promise by 2025. And when that time comes and nuclear fusion power becomes a reality, they should take advantage of the opportunity and release an announcement with Utsuho in it (because it would be fitting). I, for one, would do it if I were in charge!
Finally, I also thank all the support and extra ideas/perspectives that many people have given to this comment and the associated poster/edit. When I first made the comment and published the poster (which was a college assignment for Inorganic Chemistry), I was not really expecting it to get much attention. But I was surprised when many replies started to add up, and I have been seeing them ever since, up to this day (5th March 2022). I am pleased to see that my words and creation were inspirational or helpful for some people. So, thank you for this feeling, and take care!
Next phantasm...

[セルカトネットヤーグ]

0:47くらいからちょくちょくある、

重水素と三重水素をくっつけてヘリウムにしてたんだな

[KeyakiOfficial]

0:47
分からない人に説明すると、これは核融合反応を表してるよ。




そしてこの曲のテーマキャラであるお空（霊鳥路空 - れいうじ

[DolaBill]

Her character design and face expression: 😍

The thing she throws at you: 😨

[isiffrin]

the one virus that got past my firewall be like

[nt_UN_Owen]

When you just wanted to make a cure for the Corona virus but ended up exterminating the entire universe:

[DreadTeamLeader]

I didn’t understand this song at all until I watched touhou, I didn’t even learn touhou from this song, but from the other videos I came across, and I just need to admit, it’s an AWESOME fandom that exists.