Scientists Will Create the Sun on Earth

Scientists will create a sun in the earth in the next few months using the world's largest laser three times the size of football field.

Laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California about the same size with three U.S. football fields, and those who served in the laboratory were not kidding when they said they would create a small sun in the months ahead.

The project is called the National Ignition Facility, which will find the secret source of nuclear fusion energy production, namely, high-energy reactions that theoretically would produce unlimited energy for humanity.

Laboratory hoped to split the light into 192 small light, then shoot them in the small target was wrapped in gold, which even smaller than a fingernail.

Heat from the laser would merge into a single isotope in a reaction to 100 million degrees Celsius, five times hotter than the core of the sun.

There is the potential danger of radioactive light but wrapped laboratory facility with concrete walls with a thickness of about 2 meters.

But if the merger succeeded isotope results have been extraordinary, the small sun will release enough energy to supply energy to the whole earth.

Thus, approximately 200 trillion per second power can be excluded. "Fusion energy is the most fundamental source of energy in nature," said Project Manager Bruno Van Wonterghem.

If successful, the lab hopes that the project had been underway for five years will deliver the energy output that can be used for 20 years. "There's something to be told to children and grandchildren later," said Van Wonterghem.

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