i met him when he was 15, and he told me he had a plan to build a nuclear fusion. i knew he was serious, and i knew this wasn't a project you need to be building around your family. i started thinking right then maybe we could find room for taylor to do that right here at the university. first impression is he was probably about a foot shorter than he is now, and like i say, painfully young. and i was just wondering, could this little guy really be as smart as they say he is, and after talking to him, it didn't take time to figure out that he's very intelligent, very savvy with most anything to do with physics. i figured it would be kind of fun to help him with his projects. >> there were many sleepless nights before i got nuclear fusion. it was an incredible process in my life and time in my life, and i can remember checking the neutron detector after my first fusion shot with fusion fuel and seeing the remnants of neutrons