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May 26, 2012

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation." --Pearl S. Buck

The Boy Who Played With Fusion

Taylor Wilson always dreamed of creating a star. Now he's become one. "Taylor would transform the family's garage into a mysterious, glow-in-the-dark cache of rocks and metals and liquids with unimaginable powers ... he would conceive, in a series of unlikely epiphanies, new ways to use neutrons to confront some of the biggest challenges of our time: cancer and nuclear terrorism...he would build a reactor that could hurl atoms together in a 500-million-degree plasma core-- becoming, at 14, the youngest individual on Earth to achieve nuclear fusion." This article shares the remarkable journey of a boy who followed his dream against perilous odds.