Quote (russian @ Jul 22 2016 05:35pm)
I'm certainly a "ball earther", sure. And you are a flat earther.
They do know what fusion is, and they are trying to build practical reactors that use it to produce energy. Just because we know something exists doesn't mean we can instantly build technology to replicate it, that's just stupid. People have known that birds fly for millennia, but we didn't build an airplane till the 1900s. Besides, people HAVE built fusion bombs that replicate what's happening in the sun, and they do work. These are colloquially called "Hydrogen bombs", maybe you can even guess why. The problem is controlling that reaction in a reactor to produce a (relatively speaking) small but steady supply of energy.
Who knows? But the fact remains that we have no examples, that we are aware of, of either "nothing" or something that has always existed. We can only theorize about either.
I don't like that word Flat Earther, i prefer the geocentrism theories vs heliocentric theories. But i suppose you call black people the N word so I can't say I'm surprised at your neanderthalic use of English.
Ok about Fusion:
Pure fusion weapon
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A pure fusion weapon is a
hypothetical hydrogen bomb design that does not need a fission "primary" explosive to ignite the fusion of deuterium and tritium, two heavy isotopes of hydrogen (see thermonuclear weapon for more information about fission-fusion weapons). Such a weapon would require no fissile material and would therefore be much easier to build in secret than existing weapons. The necessity of separating high-quality fissile material requires a substantial industrial investment, and blocking the sale and transfer of the needed machinery has been the primary mechanism to control nuclear proliferation to date.
All current thermonuclear weapons use a fission bomb as a first stage to create the high temperatures and pressures necessary to start a fusion reaction between deuterium and tritium in a second stage. For many years, nuclear weapon designers have researched whether it is possible to create high enough temperatures and pressures inside a confined space to ignite a fusion reaction, without using fission. Pure fusion weapons offer the possibility of generating very small nuclear yields and the advantage of reduced collateral damage stemming from fallout because these weapons would not create the highly radioactive byproducts associated with fission-type weapons. These weapons would be lethal not only because of their explosive force, which could be large compared to bombs based on chemical explosives, but also because of the neutrons they generate.
While various neutron source devices have been developed, some of them based on fusion reactions, none of them is able to produce an energy yield, neither in controlled form for energy production nor uncontrolled for a weapon.
So there idea of fusion is the burning of elements at such a high temperature - that they "fuse" together. Are you 100% sure that's what fusion is? Have they ever been to the sun or any star and actually done tests or is it all 100% theory and not 100% fact as you think of it?