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Where Does Energy Come From?
Alice wonders where her energy to be alive comes from. This leads them through food to plants to sunlight to fusion and finally that energy comes from mass. Alice declares that they are “eating the Sun”.
This clip could provide a lead in to topics such as the fusion, energy-mass equivalence and mass defect.
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