3/03/2004 09:52:00 PM

flying cars will not be invented in Detroit or Tokyo. the future of space and terrestrial travel is going to be fueled by inventions coming from India.

if true this story is big. really big.

Table-top fusion: NRI makes Sun in jar
via seizureofpower

WASHINGTON: An Indian-born scientist and his team may have won a place in the sun by achieving nuclear fusion in a table-top experiment, leading to expectations that the world is on the cusp of a bounteous energy source.

The scientific world is describing Dr Rusi Taleyarkhan’s breakthrough, now revalidated after some initial skepticism, as "making the sun in a jar."

...In a phenomenon known as sonoluminiscence, a burst of ultrasound causes a bubble in a liquid to collapse and emit a flash of light. It is thought that the gases trapped in the collapsing bubbles could be heated to temperatures hot enough for fusion to occur.

Taleyarekhan and his team are reported to have achieved this to a degree that has gained credibility and impressed peers.