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Things You Thought You Knew - Fun with Fusion

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The Sun Is Propping Up the Sun

Nuclear fission has a stopping point. So stars are born with hydrogen and helium. And they start fusing and they work their way up the periodic table, up in mass. The sun can hold itself up against gravitational collapse. Because it wants to collapse. This gravity is that, let me just suck or as small as possible. But the fusion is saying, no, you're not. No, you're Not. Right.

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