"Fission or Fusion" Thousands of hydrogen atoms start to collide together. One after another, they crash at each other with great magnetism for the energy about to form. Like a lover's kiss, the atoms meet and embrace each other in a boiling pot of immense force. Out of the vast open blue space, an outside force crumples with the bubbling energy. With the speed of light, the atoms are forced together closer and closer until …showed first 75 words of 1988 total…

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