• Pay attention to the Artemis II mistion: Here's it day-by-day flight path.

  • The Sun - our star - as seen in the Earth's Sky

  • Helmhotz and Kelvin

  • Kelvin Helmholtz Contraction Heating - adiabatic compression: Show the Firesyringe; Try the Demo; if necessary . . . Backup Video

  • The Structure of the Nucleus

  • Nuclear Fission and Fusion

  • Hans Bethe and H to He Fusion . . . Bethe was German born, but emigrated to the U.S. in 1935

  • Proton-Proton Chain Diagram

  • An animaiton of the proton-proton chain

  • The mass of 1 Helium compared to 4 Hydrogens (load MassHeVsH.swf)

  • E equals m c Squared from Einstein himself

  • Two protons colliding

  • The Solar Thermostat

  • The Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen (CNO) Fusion Cycle

  • The Triple Alpha Process: Helium Fusion

  • Uranium chain reaction

  • First Fission bomb test in 1945
    with J. Robert Oppenheimer's (Director of the Manhatten project) thoughts from about 20 years later.
    Have you see the movie Oppenheimer? . . an excellent movie; here's the trailer.

  • A quick summary of the controlled fusion research . . (~2m37s)
  • A really complete summary in the NYtimes . . maybe a case for optimism?

  • The Solar Neutrino Problem and a new Neutrino Detector