Fusion is the process that powers the sun, generating energy through the
merging of atoms, and, for decades, scientists have tried to reproduce that on
earth. During Dr. Davidson’s tenure, the Princeton
lab made major advances toward that goal, studying ways to make the usion
self-sustaining.
In 1993, the laboratory’s immense Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor began a
series of runs using a mix of deuterium and tritium, two heavier forms of
hydrogen. (“Tokamak” is an acronym of three Russian words that mean “toroidal
magnetic chamber,” referring to the doughnut-shaped reactor that housed the
ultra hot gases.)
In November 1994, the reactor generated 10.7 million watts of fusion
energy, a world record at the time and enough to power 3,000 homes, if only for
an instant.
“That was very exciting times,” said Robert J. Goldston, a laboratory
scientist who succeeded Dr. Davidson as director in 1996. “He guided that with
a very steady and calm hand in what were fairly trying circumstances.”
The experiments laid the groundwork for future advances, including Iter,
a much larger reactor under construction in France
Creationists
attribute the existence of the sun, the moon, the universe and man to a divine
entity. If creationists are correct, then this mere mortal man has become
divine, as he recreated a sun, briefly, but he succeeded.
This accomplishment and the black hole created in the collider experiments show man’s ability to create what divine entities are attributed with. Is man therefore Divine, lending weight to the arguments put forth in the collider post, that our universe was created in a lab? Something to think about.
This accomplishment and the black hole created in the collider experiments show man’s ability to create what divine entities are attributed with. Is man therefore Divine, lending weight to the arguments put forth in the collider post, that our universe was created in a lab? Something to think about.