>You can't get a positron/neutrino pair directly, you get a w+ boson which will decay into a positron/neutrino pair, but that w+ boson, like the z0 boson in the

>You can't get a positron/neutrino pair directly, you get a w+ boson which will decay into a positron/neutrino pair, but that w+ boson, like the z0 boson in the other case, is prohibitively heavy so this reaction doesn't take place. Good. So you agree that p+p fusion into deuterium cannot occur? >Maintaining the ruse would require pretty much all the physicists in the world to be in on it. Any time anyone figures out they get shut down as described in the article. >the basic physics of thermonuclear weapons are well known, but the engineering is incredibly difficult and resource intensive. They figured making false principles well known would make keeping the real mechanism secret easier.