On the road to fusion energy, an accelerator to study warm dense matter
Friday, October 16, 2009 - 11:42
in Astronomy & Space
Imagine yourself at the core of Jupiter, a planet 300 times the mass of Earth. At 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit, you and I might think it's hot in here, but to a physicist it's merely warm - warm dense matter, to be precise, stuff that hasn't quite undergone thermonuclear fusion yet.