I interned at LLNL and went to a few talks where they discussed small-scale physics first-principles about how the interior of a star works, and I was shocked t

I interned at LLNL and went to a few talks where they discussed small-scale physics first-principles about how the interior of a star works, and I was shocked to discover that these videos were basically all that they had to go off. (And NIF, though each firing of the laser is extremely expensive and contained to a tiny chamber)