Space Daily August 29, 2026 • 02:39

Before he was old enough to drive, a 14-year-old talked a university physics department into lending him a sub-basement — the machine he assembled there fused atoms in a plasma hotter than the sun's core and made him the youngest person ever to achiev - Space Daily

When an elite physicist's refusal only delayed the inevitable, a teenager's obsession with nuclear fusion would rewrite what's possible in a basement laboratory.

The first physicist Taylor Wilson pitched turned him down flat. Friedwardt Winterberg, an eminent professor at the University of Nevada, Reno who had studied under Werner Heisenberg, listened to the … [+5114 chars]

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Before he was old enough to drive, a 14-year-old talked a university physics department into lending him a sub-basement — the machine he assembled there fused atoms in a plasma hotter than the sun's core and made him the youngest person ever to achiev - Space Daily

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