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		peterfirefly on Oct 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details > "Top physicists?" Fusion is an engineering problem." So are refrigerators. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator

geon on Oct 16, 2014 [–]

> It has been suggested that most of the actual inventing was performed by Szilárd, with Einstein merely acting as a consultant and helping with the patent-related paperwork.[1]

Plausible, since he had the experience.

peterfirefly on Oct 16, 2014 | | [–]

And Szilárd was not a top-class physicist (and engineer)?

estefan on Oct 16, 2014 | | [–]

lol

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