Fusion
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For centuries, humankind has looked at the stars, and for just as many years
humankind has tried to explain the existence of those very same stars. Were
they holes in an enormous canvas that covered the earth? Were they fire-flies
that could only be seen when the Apollo had parked his chariot for ....
Middle of paper
.... fusion can no longer occur. The first
question one must ask is, "What is fusion?" One simple way of explaining it is
taking two balls of clay and mashing them into one, creating a new, larger
particle from the two. Now replace those balls of clay with sub-atomic
particles, and when they meld, release an enormous amount of energy. This is
fusion. There is currently three known variations of fusion: the proton-proton
reaction (Figure 1.1), the carbon cycle (Figure 1.2), and the triple-alpha ....
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