Dennis Whyte

Make a plasma, then you get it hot enough, and when you get it hot enough, the fusion reactions start happening so rapidly that it's overcoming the rate at which it's leaking heat to the outside world, and at some point it just becomes like a star, right?

Like a sun, our own sun and a star doesn't have anything plugged into it.

It's just keeping itself hot through its own fusion reactions.

In the end, that's really close to what a fusion power plant would look like.

Yeah, actually, it's invisible to the eye because it's so hot that it's basically emitting light in frequencies that we can't detect.

It's invisible, perfectly.

In fact, light goes through it.

Visible light goes through it so easy that if you were to look at it, what you would see...

In our own particular configuration, what we make is in the end is a donut-shaped, it's a vacuum vessel to keep the air out of it.

And when you turn on the plasma, it gets so hot that most of it just disappears in the visible spectrum.

You can't see anything.

And there's very, very cold plasma, which is between 10 and 100,000 degrees, which is out in the very periphery of it, which is kind of... So the very cold plasma is allowed to interact with the...

It kind of has to interact with something eventually at the boundary of the vacuum vessel.

And this kind of makes a little halo around it.

And it glows this beautiful purple light, basically.

And that's what we can sense in the human spectrum.

Actually, I do have...

This goes off in a bit.

You're right.

This is actually, it's interesting because, you know, as a scientist, you also think about evolutionary functions and how we got, like, why do we have the senses that we do?