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Breaking the atom was no longer an academic proposition but profoundly threatening.

Systems with not just a trillion possible states, but more states than there are atoms in the universe.

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He doesn’t like seeing the fallen atom smasher, he said.

The idea started with Robson in 1974, as he taught students at the University of Melbourne by turning wooden balls into models of atoms.

Harnessing the energy released when atoms fuse together could produce vast amounts of low carbon energy but most scientists believe commercial fusion power plants are still a long way off.

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