Atoms Scream When They Die?

By Anupum Pant

At a state of the art fusion reactor at MIT, special machines heat up gasses at really high temperature, to about million degrees hotter than the sun’s surface. This makes them move around so fast that they are able to smash together and fuse. This right now doesn’t work as it should in theory. But when it does, it would be a great clean source of energy.

For now, what is interesting is a kind of noise atoms make just before they are about to fuse. The sound is like a shrieking baby. Here is what they sound like when they die…

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