5 Feb
1999
5 Feb
'99
4:55 a.m.
"Ward D. Griffiths III" <gram(a)cnct.com> wrote:
I can't think of any case in nature of fast nuclear fission like
we've been able to do for fifty-odd years. In fact, I can't think
of any "natural" way to achieve a critical mass of fissionable
material.
Hi
All the pieces were there, all we've done is put
the pieces to gether. In the zero-point case, there
seem to be missing pieces. Besides, fast fission is
not any different than regular fission that we knew
about before hand. Just because nature hasn't made a
fission bomb ( that we know of ) doesn't mean we have made a
big jump on nature by mixing a material that multiplies neutrons
with a material the used neutrons to trigger fission.
We took things that we knew existed and combined them.
Each part of the bomb used a principle that was known
to work in nature. Nothing really new here. This
isn't to belittle the creative nature of man to put
thing together in creative ways but we are still
just putting things together, in predictable ways, not
making them do things that don't make sense.
We built the bomb on sound understanding of the
principles involved. We used things that were already
there. We didn't invent a new nature of matter to make
it work, we observed a natural processes that we knew
worked and went from there. We didn't take a model
of nature that we knew wasn't consistant with what
we saw and expected it to create something that wasn't
there before.
Dwight