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China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), often called the artificial sun, achieved an unprecedented plasma density while maintaining stability. Plasma density is critical because fusion reactions become more efficient as density increases, but too much density was believed to cause instability and collapse. By breaking this limit, EAST showed that fusion plasmas can be denser and more stable than existing models predicted. This challenges long-held assumptions in fusion phys