A report on Yahoo! caught my eye today:
Friendly ‘Death Star’ Laser to Recreate Sun’s Power
Lasers have usually represented weapons of mass destruction in movies such as “Star Wars,” but a newly completed facility has begun harnessing lasers to create a fusion reaction rivaling the power of a miniature sun.
The National Ignition Facility has already test-fired all 192 giant lasers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California as part of this effort. The lasers will eventually focus their power on compressing and heating a single, pea-sized fuel capsule to more than 180 million degrees Fahrenheit in order to trigger thermonuclear fusion.
Now I’ll be the first to admit I don’t understand anything about science, I don’t like science, and I really don’t care too much about science. But this story made me laugh a little bit. Here’s why:
For hundreds of years, scientists have been trying to discover how the earth was created, where we came from, how things happened at the beginning, how many evolved, etc. Now, ~4000 years after the earth was created, scientists think they finally have found a way to create a miniature sun using 192 giant lasers.
Isn’t it ironic that it’s taken scientists many years and millions of dollars of research to create a miniature replica of something they believed happened by chance? Isn’t it odd that we don’t have the capabilities to create another sun, but scientists believe ours was created by a Big Bang and just so happened to be placed at an exact direction away from us so we won’t freeze or burn to death?
All this does is reaffirm my belief in a wonderful Creator who put the sun in its exact place, and yet also loved me enough to place me on this earth.
Tags: Creator, God, Lasers, Replica Sun