The Biggest Nuclear Reactor in the Solar System

Here we learn how the Sun shines, and how long it will shine, as well as some of the great questions of 19th-century Physics. We'll also see what your smile looks like when you get a Nobel Prize. This is part of my intro Astronomy class taught at Willam Paterson University and CUNY Hunter.

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Jim Hutton's Siccar Point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siccar_...
Gravitational Potential Energy: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/...
Kelvin-Helmholtz mechanism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin-...
The discovery of radioactivity: http://www2.lbl.gov/abc/wallchart/cha...
Wilhelm Roentgen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm...
Timeline of Nuclear Physics Discoveries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...
Einstein's Mass-Energy Equivalence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-en...
Sir Arthur Eddington: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
Hermann von Helmholtz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann...
Alpha Decay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_d...
Quantum Tunnelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum...
George Gamow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
Gamow Peak: https://andromedageek.wordpress.com/2...
The Proton-Proton Chain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton-...
Tsar Bomba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
Hans Bethe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bethe
Henri Becquerel: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_priz...