Episode 95: Melting Stone With the Sun | Peter Forhan LIVE Solar Experiments
Questioning Everything
- Published
- October 17, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 42m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Oct 21, 2026
Discusses society, culture, personal, journals.
Summary
Peter Forhan came back for Episode 95 of Questioning Everything, and for the first time we took the show outside, live. It was high noon on a rooftop in Shenzhen, China, and Peter brought a lens that concentrates sunlight a thousand times to show what "sunfire" can do.Peter exploded a chunk of pyrite (it made both of us jump), melted pewter into a shot-gl…
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Peter Forhan came back for Episode 95 of Questioning Everything, and for the first time we took the show outside, live. It was high noon on a rooftop in Shenzhen, China, and Peter brought a lens that concentrates sunlight a thousand times to show what "sunfire" can do.Peter exploded a chunk of pyrite (it made both of us jump), melted pewter into a shot-glass mold and turned it into a little tin "goose," and heated obsidian until a single tap split it, his case for how the old world could have qu
Themes
- society
- culture
- personal
- journals