James Burke
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This film or show by James Burke came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Dennis Whyte. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“I really recommend you know this I don't know if you've ever seen them it's called the day the universe changed James Burke”— Dennis Whyte
The guest here is Dennis Whyte: Nuclear physicist at MIT and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. A leader of the SPARC tokamak effort and a co-founder of the MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems. MIT fusion scientist Dennis Whyte explains how nuclear fusion works and why commercial fusion power finally looks four years away, not forty.