Scientists Experiment with Creating Artificial Sun

Chinese scientists have started a new round of experiments aimed at creating an 'artificial sun.'

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion reactor is to replicate the energy generating process of the sun.

The Institute of Plasma Physics in China's Anhui Province experimented with forcing deutrium and tritium atoms together at a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius to produce a substance that is neither gas, liquid nor solid but can give off its own energy.

They created a plasma that lasted nearly five seconds and generated an electrical current of 500 kiloamperes.

The goal is to get the plasma to last longer at higher temperatures…or to create a sun.

Indeed it would be cool if the scientists could create an artificial sun…but then what would they do with it? Harness it? How?

And what about that basic principle that matter can neither be created nor destroyed?

Call me a skeptic.

What about you?