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Schoolboy Creates Nuclear Fusion

Posted March 06, 2014 1:29 PM

From BBC News - Science & Environment:

A 13-year-old schoolboy creates nuclear fusion in a Lancashire school.

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03/07/2014 9:16 AM

Yah, this sound like for all the wrong reasons............. I'm not at all impressed because of that.

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03/07/2014 9:53 AM

Was there a news conference about this? I must have missed it. The details are a little cold.

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03/07/2014 12:15 PM

Oh sure when someone else does it it's news worthy.

When I did it it was "a national security issue" and they took my toys away.

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03/07/2014 12:21 PM

I hear that Mattel and Hasbro are competing to purchase the rights for this........

Hasbro already has a name picked out called:

"Junior Sandia National Laboratories Kit".

planned to be available at Toy's R' Us, some time in August.....

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03/09/2014 10:05 AM

Yep! After working for aerospace in the "black hole" i realized that when i published a white paper it ended up in a locked down area in a file drawer. During the leave interview i was told to NEVER talk about it. My gripe is that some did not have any real value of national security.

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03/07/2014 3:13 PM

As a Science Fair Tutor and Judge (that is, Applied Science) I am IMPRESSED! This is amazing, and for a 13 year-old boy, without the aid of a large business grant, boards of engineers, and all the bureaucratic infighting that are involved in so many major scientific undertakings nowadays.

Go get 'em, son. I'm an American, and a Patriot, but my hat is off to YOU, and to your school, your mentors, those forward thinking people who gave you your reigns, and supported your pursuit. But mainly, I am amazed, astounded, and downright proud of YOU for pursuing the dream

Don't ever quit pushing, asking, learning, and doing. You go, son!

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03/09/2014 6:21 PM

This has happened before (in that mainstream media have reported a backyard tinkerer creating nuclear fusion). In the previous example (posted on CR4 somewhere) the evidence was also the same, "we knew it was nuclear fusion because it was purple in colour".

<sigh>

Well at least photos taken of peak reading multimeters measuring pulse waveforms to prove over-unity energy generation weren't used this time. That and meat wasn't involved.

His application for funds was rejected by various nuclear laboratories and universities.

What a surprise (or is this..........a conspiracy).

<dum dum.....dummmmmm>

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03/09/2014 10:59 PM

That is just it,.... It has to be confirmed yet........ As I stated earlier, This is all for the wrong reasons.

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03/10/2014 10:13 AM

The future's bright. Wear shades.

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