I was asked recently, “how did you get interested in this subject?” This is where the story begins, on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean near Santa Cruz California, on a warm afternoon in the late summer of 1973. I had graduated from a branch of Antioch College near Baltimore, Maryland, in the spring of …
“This is the good part of my theories. You must continue this work.” –Albert Einstein – despondent after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – to Philo T. Farnsworth in 1948 “I’ve seen all I need to see.” –Philo T. Farnsworth – to his wife after conducting a clandestine, late-night fusor ‘run’ in 1966 “We were close. We were very …
… we really are going to need shades… Imagine being dropped into the middle of an episode of “The Big Bang Theory.” Then imagine taking LSD. Then imagine that the episode runs for like 12 or 14 hours… Now you’ve got some idea what this past Saturday was like for me… The occasion was the 26th …
No, not really mad… just Richard Hull turning down the lights in his lab while demonstrating his Fusor IV today at HEAS – the High Energy Amateur Science confab at his home and lab in Richmond, Virginia. More photos and stories when I get home….
by Paul Schatzkin October 1, 2015 What’s wrong with this picture? Tomorrow (Friday, October 2) I will be driving from Nashville up to Richmond, Virginia for the annual gathering of the HEAS – the High Energy Amateur Science club. This loosely-configured assembly of dedicated science nerds has gathered on the first Saturday of every October …
Greetings from FusorHQ. If you’ve made it this far, then you’ll notice things have changed considerably. We have relocated Fusor.net to a new server host. Everything about the site has changed. The front page (that you are looking at now) is no longer hosted by TypePad; it is now it’s own, stand-alone, WordPress installation. And …
