{"id":146108,"date":"2022-09-11T13:26:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T18:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/ian-hutchinson-nuclear-fusion-plasma-physics-and-religion"},"modified":"2022-09-11T13:26:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T18:26:33","slug":"ian-hutchinson-nuclear-fusion-plasma-physics-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/ian-hutchinson-nuclear-fusion-plasma-physics-and-religion","title":{"rendered":"Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pDSEjaDCtOU?t=2526\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/pDSEjaDCtOU?t=2526<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ian Hutchinson\u2019s concerns for existential risk after minute 42.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ian Hutchinson is a nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at MIT. He has made a number of important contributions in plasma physics including the magnetic confinement of plasmas seeking to enable fusion reactions, which is the energy source of the stars, to be used for practical energy production. Current nuclear reactors are based on fission as we discuss. Ian has also written on the philosophy of science and the relationship between science and religion.<\/p>\n<p>Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors:<br \/> - Sun Basket, use code LEX: <a href=\"https:\/\/sunbasket.com\/lex\">https:\/\/sunbasket.com\/lex<\/a>.<br \/> - PowerDot, use code LEX: <a href=\"https:\/\/powerdot.com\/lex\">https:\/\/powerdot.com\/lex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>EPISODE LINKS:<br \/> Ian\u2019s Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www-internal.psfc.mit.edu\/~hutch\/\">https:\/\/www-internal.psfc.mit.edu\/~hutch\/<\/a><br \/> Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? (book): <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/30aooVT\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/30aooVT<\/a><br \/> Monopolizing Knowledge (book): <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Xb2a4q\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Xb2a4q<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PODCAST INFO:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/ian-hutchinson-nuclear-fusion-plasma-physics-and-religion\">Continue reading \u201cIan Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/pDSEjaDCtOU?t=2526 Ian Hutchinson\u2019s concerns for existential risk after minute 42. Ian Hutchinson is a nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at MIT. He has made a number of important contributions in plasma physics including the magnetic confinement of plasmas seeking to enable fusion reactions, which is the energy source of the stars, to be used for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,873,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-military","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}