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Join host Tom Billio, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion dollar brand Quest Nutrition, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

Welcome to Impact Theory.

Everybody, welcome to Impact Theory. You were here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless, but you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will help you actually execute on your dreams.

Alright, today's guest is the youngest person in history to achieve nuclear fusion.

At the age of 14, on a unit that he began building in his parents garage, with pieces he cobbled together from discarded parts, the internet, and uranium he mined by himself, he managed to smash together atomic nuclei at such high velocity that he achieved temperatures 40 times greater than the core of the sun.

But the time is in high school, he'd acquired a deep base of knowledge in at least 20 fundamental fields of science and engineering, including physics, chemistry, radiation, meteorology, and electrical engineering.

By the time most kids are getting their driver's license, he'd invented the world's cheapest neutron detector, designed to stop terrorists from smuggling in a dirty bomb, won the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award, won a Teal Fellowship,

and developed a medical device that created diagnostic medical isotopes that dramatically lowered the cost of cancer detection.

And since then, he's designed a radically new version of a nuclear power plant that he believes is far cheaper and safer than current plants.

And if he's right, the implications are far reaching.

The US Undersecretary of Energy, Christina Johnson said that someone like him comes along only once in a generation.

As such, in 2017, he was named to the Helena Group, a global think tank aimed at tackling some of the biggest problems that we face as a civilization, please.

Help me in welcoming the man Time Magazine called the Next Einstein, vice correspondent and nuclear physicist, Taylor Wilson.

Thank you for coming on the show.

Researching you as madness.

Creating nuclear fusion seems out of the realm of possibility, certainly for myself, and I'm going to guess for 99.9999,

percent of the people watching this show, what's the secret to doing the impossible?

I don't know, interesting hobbies, I guess.

I just, I decided I wanted to do it, right?

And that's come always been my personality.

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