View Single Post Old January 3 2013, 03:35 AM   #51 Pumpkin
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Re: Minor BTTF Part Two question  Gotham Central wrote: View
Post Trekker4747 wrote: View Post Anyone ever consider what the
"Mr. Fusion" on the back of the DeLorean (and presumably a power
source used all over in 2015) is really capable of? Forget that
it's capable of providing cold fusion in a small space and is
"stable" enough to be mounted on a car. But what we see it do is
simply incredible, on some levels it's more powerful than any
other natural fusion reaction in the universe.  In massive stars
hydrogen is fused together to form helium, then helium to form
carbon, and some of the other elements are mixed in there but
once a star (if its big enough) gets to iron it cannot go any
further. At that point there's not enough energy in the star to
fuse two iron molecules together to from the next element, at
this point the star is so heavy and dense that it collapses into
itself likely f