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From: Robin van Spaandonk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 28 September 2008 04:40
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticle accelerator ?
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:03:28 -0700 (PDT):
Hi,
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The 'magic' if there is any, would be in the special
Remi
This is already being done with ferrofluid thrusters.
Along the lines of an inkjet printer little nozzles expel ferrofluid. We
have some people at QMUL doing this.
Thanks, I'll check that out.
Even though there is way too much bad news fouling the air these days - let me
revert to science, and throw this out concept for comment:
What is wrong with the following suggestion for a linear accelerator of
nanoparticles (as opposed to ions) ?
To be more specific, let's say we have a fairly
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From: Robin van Spaandonk
Wouldn't it be easier to just give each nano-particle a charge and accelerate
them in an electric field?
Possibly - but one thing left unmentioned was the desirability of keeping the
nanoparticle very cold.
I am trying to find or
For comparative purposes, if you accelerated a deuteron to a few million volts
into a target of lithium deuteride, it would get up to a fair fraction of c. at
the end -- and you would get lots of thermonuclear reactions and spallation but
few of the reactions would be D + D -- 4He (with the
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:14:32 -0700 (PDT):
Hi,
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and there was substantial QM tunneling triggered by impact
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Why would you expect this to be the case?
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Robin,
Lets see - at an ending velocity of 1000 km/sec and the particle itself is of
a geometry below the Forster radius of 10 nm, then the trasition time on
impact from the BEC state to a very energetic intermediate quark-soup phase
... well it is way sub-picosecond and that should make
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:03:28 -0700 (PDT):
Hi,
[snip]
The 'magic' if there is any, would be in the special properties of the BEC
state. If that state were to be strongly involved, then it is not simply 5 keV
used to push nuclei together, which want to repel -
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