Dennis Whyte
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first heard Jan 2023
last heard Jan 2023
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Lex Fridman Podcast · #353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy · 21 Jan 2023
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It was very interesting.
It was, so it's not what you think.
It wasn't like, oh, strong nuclear force or fusion or something like this.
And it's very profound, which was, he was, that the reason that matter exists
operates the way that it does is because all matter is made up of individual particles that interact each other through forces that was it so just that atomic theory basically yeah which is like wow that's like so simple but it's not so simple it's because like who thinks about atoms that they're made out of like i i
This is a good question I give to my students.
How many atoms are in your body?
Like almost no students can answer this.
But to me, that's like a fundamental thing.
By the way, it's about 10 to the 28.
10 to the 28.
So that's, you know, trillion, you know.
Million, trillion, trillion, or something like that, yes.
Yes, exactly, yeah.
No, I mean, there are people who do study such things of the fact that if you look at the, for example, the ratios between those fundamental forces...
People have figured out, oh, if this ratio was different by some factor, like a factor of two or something, I was like, oh, this would all not work.
And you look at the sun, right?
So it turns out that there are key reactions that if they had slightly lower probability, no star would ever ignite.
And then life wouldn't be possible.
Yeah, yeah, that's the way I look at it.
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