[Reeses]

There are more nuclear scientists alive today than have ever lived, yet their progress per man-year spent has slowed down to almost nothing. The WW II nuclear gold vein is tapped out.

The ideal nuclear power source is mixing matter with anti-matter, but nobody has figured out how to make cheap anti-matter yet. Maybe matter can be efficiently disassembled into free energy some other way. Eventually some young nerdy Arthur will pull the sword from the rock, and will be made king.

[grey_whiskers]

dilithium crystals /ST: TOS>