BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan

[Jed Rothwell]

[It is absurd that these people think a claim can be disproved with a single experiment! And if they do not really believe that, they should not say it, because people viewing the television will believe them. - JR]

Horizon
Thu 17 Feb, 9:00 pm - 9:50 pm  50mins (BBC2)

An Experiment to Save the World

Horizon takes one of the most controversial and ambitious claims in science, and conducts an experiment to see if it's really true. If the experiment works, then the world could be on the way to a new form of cheap, unlimited, pollution free energy. But if it fails, then that dream will die. The experiment is an attempt to make nuclear fusion, one of the Holy Grails of science.

Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the sun, and scientists know that if they could just make fusion happen here on Earth, they could solve all the world's energy problems. Billions of pounds have been spent, but so far nuclear fusion has failed to deliver.

Now an American scientist claims to have created nuclear fusion simply by bombarding a flask of liquid with sound waves. His work has been published in Science Magazine, one of the most prestigious journals in the world. But many scientists refuse to believe his claims.

Horizon attempts to sort the matter out once and for all; we've commissioned a team of world class scientists to try and replicate Rusi Taleyarkhan's experiment. This film reveals the result of that experiment. [With audio description]

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