Underground Experiment Confirms Fusion Powers the Sun

sciencehabit writes: Scientists have long believed that the power of the sun comes largely from the fusion of protons into helium, but now they can finally prove it (abstract). An international team of researchers using a detector buried deep below the mountains of central Italy has detected neutrinos—ghostly particles that interact only very reluctantly with matter—streaming from the heart of the sun. Other solar neutrinos have been detected before, but these particular ones come from the key proton-proton fusion reaction that is the first part of a chain of reactions that provides 99% of the sun's power.

Comments

Re:Thought that was obvious... ?

[wallsg]

Obvious is different from proven.

Re:That's not how science works

[khallow]

Or we could just realize that "proof" in empirical science means something different than it does in pure mathematics.