Sun in Miniature

http://www.cnn.com/videos/bestoftv/2014/12/22/exp-gps-moonshots-iter-sot.cnn

Last Sunday we listened to Fareed Zakaria's special on "GPS Moonshots: Creating a star on earth". The collaborative project is named 'Iter', Roman for 'The Way'. The intent, I believe, is to harness the solar energy by artificially creating the sun on the earth.  As fascinating as the talk is/was, I have/had reservation.  

Science does and will continue unhindered often to the detriment of humanity. 

I will not be on the face of this earth, when this materializes, if at all it does.

Sun in Miniature

A physicist in a white robe

in a costly sterile select lab

splits an atom in fission

releasing pent-up energy

He forces two atoms to collide

and merge them in fusion

unleashing extreme energy

momentarily recreating

a sun in miniature

Awed and blinded by

his brilliant feat,

I wondered,

"Can an ephemeral sun of lab

ever afford, among other things,

the wonderment

of the real sun?"

              charu(from thoughts I thought)