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Josh Clark

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Stuff You Should Know
Elastics: Where God and Science Smooch

We're already getting sidetracked here.

Stuff You Should Know
Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?

And then there's the electromagnetic fields that are holding the plasma in place.

Stuff You Should Know
Elastics: Where God and Science Smooch

Oh, we've been sidetracked, baby.

Stuff You Should Know
How the Scientific Method Works

All right.

Stuff You Should Know
How the Scientific Method Works

So where are we?

Stuff You Should Know
Elastics: Where God and Science Smooch

So when, regardless of who came up with it, even though it was Charles Goodyear, once vulcanization was introduced to the world, all of a sudden, all of these dreams of what you could do with a flexible, durable material that could withstand tremendous pressure and force and heat and cold, too, which was a big one.

Stuff You Should Know
How the Scientific Method Works

We are with... I think we're at Democritus.

Stuff You Should Know
Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?

But then remember we said the Russians figured out that if you put an electromagnetic field in the middle of the whole thing, it will stabilize that plasma, but it also heats it up.

Stuff You Should Know
Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method

Antonio van Leeuwenhoek, specifically, a Dutch tradesman, was pretty good at making simple microscopes, and all of a sudden, contemporaries like Robert Hooke said, you know what, let's start looking at tiny things, because therein might lie the answer to many, many things.

Stuff You Should Know
How the Scientific Method Works

Okay, yeah, yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
How the Scientific Method Works

Democritus then comes along.

Stuff You Should Know
How the Scientific Method Works

Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
How the Scientific Method Works

And he's like, all right, I got this new theory, because there were some problems with what Empedocles was talking about.

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How Big Bang Theory Works, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

everything.

Stuff You Should Know
How Big Bang Theory Works, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

And that area, right, 10 to the negative 33 centimeters, again, the average diameter of an atom, or roughly something like that, is 10 to the negative 10.

Stuff You Should Know
Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?

So it serves this double purpose.

Stuff You Should Know
Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?

And then just to add a little extra temperature, they shoot it with microwaves and some other stuff.

Stuff You Should Know
How the Scientific Method Works

First of all, he has offered no evidence.

Stuff You Should Know
How the Scientific Method Works

I don't know if anyone noticed that at all.

Stuff You Should Know
Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?

And then heat it up, and then as the plasma goes crazy and all the fusion energy is released, the neutrons move their way outside of the electromagnetic field into the blanket, which they heat up, and the heat energy is transferred to power that turbine or move the horse down the lane.