The Bursting of Bubble Fusion

Critics assail a Purdue scientist who said he had created the most exciting physics of the decade

By ERIK VANCE

West Lafayette, Ind.

Rusi P. Taleyarkhan's laboratory is buried deep within a squat, gray building a few miles from Purdue University. It sits on a wide parking lot, which melts into the flat expanse of northern Indiana, giving the...