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What Would It Take to Build a Sun on Earth? (We Make Something Hotter Instead)
What would it take to create a sun on Earth? Can we even do it? Not really, despite what the headlines suggest. Fusion reactors on Earth get hotter than the sun's core, but that doesn't make them a sun. A viewer asked, so let's break it down.
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00:00 What would it take to create a sun on Earth?
00:07 Not that I know of, despite what the media suggests
00:15 A viewer's question
00:21 We live on a spinning rock orbiting a fusion plasma ball
00:39 Can we recreate the sun on Earth?
00:50 The sun is a massive fusion plasma held together by its own gravity
01:06 Core temperature about 15…
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