How Neutrons Changed Everything
Without neutrons, harnessing nuclear energy would be impossible. Try Audible free for 30 days: http://audible.com/veritasium I have a new documentary coming ...
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Now that we have nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants you might think that it was always Inevitable that we would be able to harness the energy inside the nucleus of atoms But that was far from the case in fact serious scientists, thought the idea was laughable like Nobel laureate Robert Millikan who in 1928 said there is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is a completely unscientific Utopian dream or as Rutherford put it anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine now there was good reason for their pessimism when Becquerel first observed to radioactivity he thought it was a phenomenon similar to phosphorescence That's when you shine radia...
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Now that we have nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants you might think that it was always Inevitable that we would be able to harness the energy inside the nucleus of atoms But that was far from the case in fact serious scientists, thought the idea was laughable like Nobel laureate Robert Millikan who in 1928 said there is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is a completely unscientific Utopian dream or as Rutherford put it anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine now there was good reason for their pessimism when Becquerel first observed to radioactivity he thought it was a phenomenon similar to phosphorescence That's when you shine radia...
