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East or west, north or south is just a direction of the magnetic compass. However, in terms of significant scientific discoveries these more often than not are found occidentally not accidentally nor orientally, nor arctically, nor antarctically.

At this moment, the pivotal point centers around CERN since the demise of the Superconducting Supercollider in friendly Texas. In the past, major facilities around the world have seen their fair shares of serendipitous discovery: detecting neutrinos in Kamiokonde, Japan to searching partons in SLAC, California. However, despite their concerted efforts both financially and intellectually, none has ever successfully created practically feasible hot thermonuclear fusion, in facts, not even a meager cold fusion of any kind. Achieving successful sustainable plasma confinements remains one of the greatest hopes of mankind for a source of limitless energy, besides hoping for everlasting peace and world wide prosperity, maybe not World Wide Web infinite capacity. Almost a century now, a minority of remaining scientifically minded but growing older day by day people anxiously anticipating almost in tears one breakeven operation of ITER for an occidental occasional occasion of a successful fusion reaction given by deuterium-tritium (D-T) mixture: D+T®He+n+17.6(MeV). The neutron took 14.1 MeV and He took 3.5 MeV. Reference: Kadomtsev, B B, Tokamak Plasma: A Complex Physical System, IOP Publishing, Page 10, Bristol and Philadelphia, 1992.