thomas malloy wrote:
A nano tech nuclear bomb?
Ah, here is a novel nanoscale approach: gravitational collapse. Why destroy
a city when you can implode the whole planet? Or maybe the whole solar system.
Jean-Paul just sent me an ICCF11 paper that needs editing:
Stanislav V. Adamenko, et al., "THE CONDITIONS AND REALIZATION OF
SELF-SIMILAR COULOMB COLLAPSE OF CONDENSED TARGET AND LOW-ENERGY LABORATORY
NUCLEOSYNTHESIS"
According to this:
"The problem of fulfilling the conditions to achieve the collapse of an
electron-nucleus system of matter with subsequent global nuclear
transformation is one of the fundamental trends of contemporary science.
Earlier, such a problem was considered only in connection with the global
phenomena of astrophysics (gravitational collapse, formation of neutron
stars, bursts of supernovas, etc.). Recently, it has been found [1-4] that
the state of collapse can be realized also under terrestrial conditions in
a laboratory with an energy supply of at most 1 kJ. Of great importance is
the fact that a macroscopic quantity of matter can be involved in the state
of collapse (at least 10E18 atoms) rather than 2 separate nuclei, as it is
happening in accelerators with extremely high energies. Thorough studies
[5] have shown that the phenomenon of global self-compression of matter can
be related to the Coulomb collapse of an electron-nucleus system. The
conditions for such a collapse can be fulfilled only when a macroscopic
amount of matter is preliminarily compressed up to the critical density
corresponding to a degenerate relativistic gas. . . . [I]t is very
difficult to realize a collapse in ordinary laboratory conditions by using
the traditional methods of targets compression.
We consider two different methods of compression of matter up to the
critical density. . . ."
Like I said, maybe you don't wanna know . . .
- Jed
