Wilson got his start on Fusor.net, a website where nuclear hobbyists who call themselves "fusioneers" fill message boards on topics that would enthrall only the geekiest subset of society, like "So where can I get a deal on deuterium gas?" The goal of every fusioneer is to build a reactor that can fuse atoms together, a feat first achieved by scientists in 1934. Ever since, nuclear fusion has been hailed as a potential "clean" energy source, although scientists have yet to figure out how to harness its power.
By the time Wilson stumbled across Fusor.net, 30 hobbyists worldwide had managed to produce the reaction; Wilson was determined to become the thirty-first. He started amassing the necessary components, such as a high-voltage power supply (used to run neon signs), a reaction chamber where fusion takes place (typically a hollow stainless steel sphere, like a flagpole ornament), and a vacuum pump...
1 Cor.1:18-28 "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that 'not many' wise men after the flesh, 'not many' mighty, 'not many' noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen,...that no flesh would glory in His sigh
"At age 7, he'd memorized every rocket made by the U.S. and Soviet governments from the 1930s onward. But of all of Wilson's obsessions, radioactivity stuck."
Sounds like this young lad has got a good future in front of him. Science and his abilities revealed so early, should keep him occupied in a world searching for all the answers by technological means.
Some people are born to fit right in to this world and its education (ie good memory) based society and bureaucracy. Others born with a mediocre memory system are born not to!
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