Josh Clark
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And this is where you can actually use a particle accelerator to recreate and look at this stuff.
It cures it, and then they slice that up into rubber bands.
Like we can't feel it, we can't see it, but it has weight, so it's gotta be made of something.
plasma has a tendency to just move around and make its way out.
He didn't do anything about it, he just put it out there.
Yeah, we have no way of knowing that there is a simpler model of the universe or photosynthesis or of a shark or anything like that.
And then along comes Louis Pasteur, who does do something about it.
Right.
So we can actually observe this at this point.
Pretty neat.
It's still not fully contained.
It is pretty neat.
And so what's it made of?
Yeah, we can smash things together and be like, kaboom!
He figures out a great experiment to try to disprove spontaneous generation.
So how can an element be made of something else, I guess, is the point of that.
And they're using something, basically mirrors, to catch the plasma that's getting out and moving it to parts of the electromagnetic field that are less dense.
You want to take a break and then talk some more about how it's made?