MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell June 4, 2024 06:50:00
For this breakthrough experiment. thank you very much for joining us tonight. i did not dare take physics in high school. so, could you please explain this so even an anchor man has a chance of understanding? >> sure, so, what we are doing here is combining two light nuclei, so when they undergo a nuclear reaction, release energy. the way we do this is that we essentially have to create a miniature star in the laboratory with giant lasers. what we do is shine the giant lasers on to the inside of a gold can or cylinder, about the size of a top of a pencil eraser. we create a hot x-ray bath insi...
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