Can’t get enough of BBC’s Bang Goes the Theory series.  This time host Jem Stansfield travels to the Solar Furnace Research Facility in Southern France to witness the incredible power generated by highly concentrated sunlight.  At the core of the “sunshine” temperature can rise to 6,300 degrees Fahrenheit and is powerful enough to almost instantly burn through wood and even melt a rock!  Watch a dangerously cool demonstration above.

[Via Gizmodo]