Van Gogh and the fusing stars
26 Jan 2009
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Sabina Griffith
Van Gogh and fusion energy are two things that you wouldn't naturally link together. Yet journalist John Mangels sees some connection between the artist's famous painting "The Starry Night" and the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ quest. "Perhaps Van Gogh saw the future... More than a century later, on a Provence hillside barely 50 miles from where the artist produced his masterpiece, scientists are building a giant machine to bring the stars to Earth."