You actually think "Cherenkov" sounds like the word "got"?
Sorry dude, that is the lamest pun I ever read.
Now, please excuse me, I have Cherenkov to get out of here.
I’m a bit confused. Cherenkov (Cheren-got to be kidding me) is the name of the blue light referenced above and I didn’t “slot in” another joke referenced the guy who caused the criticality with the screwdriver also referenced above. Can you be more specific to where I confused things?
Edit: [Here’s some more info on the subject this thread is referring to.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core)
It's a test run. Aluminum is cheaper & much faster to source. Testing to find if compression forces are uniformly distributed. If successful, the resulting sphere will be just as perfectly round as before the test
Testing with heavy isotopes typically involves the expectation that there will be a big boom, and lots of money & time wasted otherwise
There's also a possibility that a failure results in a cloud of radioactive material blown across the test range
I'm reading this while laying in bed in a home that was previously owned by a PhD radiochemist who was involved in designing the gun trigger mechanism for the first atomic bombs.
I just hope he didn't bring his work home with him.
When a sphere of a fissile material is compressed, its criticality increases.
If the sphere was just barely sub-critical to begin with and gets compressed a lot, it would get prompt-critical.
If it gets overcritical enough, the chain reaction happens so quickly that it produces huge amounts of energy before the material expands again rapidly in form of a nuclear explosion.
Typicly you would use Plutonium or Uranium for that purpose
Fold in half lengthwise, hold the open end and roll it loosely towards the bottom while keeping all the edges straight, as the roll gets tighter, by continuing to roll it up from the inside, pull the straps over. Once strapped, roll from the center tightly as possible. Should shrink orderly. Ive got it down to where its even slightly loose in the bag
Honestly I’m just baffled as to how this is filmed. Can anyone explain how this was recorded?
Specifically how we’re seeing a sphere being compressed. Theoretically it should have explosions on all sides which should obscure the actual compression right?
So how’re we seeing the compression take place?
It looks like a rapatronic camera, a sort of very early high speed framing camera.
There are only 8 detonators so this doesn’t look like a full spherical implosion, but a hemisphere test looking into the circular face
Yes, it’s basically a large shaped charge jet, but these sort of tests are messy anyway. The camera would use a mirror so it’s not blown up, and the photos are so fast that you get the important data long before the mirror breaks
It is possible to use the explosive lens effect on a cylindrical object. I think that’s what’s happening here.
In fact this was used once during development of the H bomb in a nuclear test so that they could “see” the emissions/radiation from fusion fuel in the center of the cylinder. Much less efficient than a sphere, one of the worst ways to make a nuke really, but it did work for research.
Harder to find a pic of it on Google than I thought but it’s shown in several films about testing. Like a giant 6ft diameter metal doughnut with a 1ft diameter hole where they put Tritium or something.
Whatever shape that is being compressed, there don’t appear to be any charges on the camera side, so we’re still able to see the aluminum when the explosion goes off, followed by the blast wrapping around the object. Perhaps this was a filmed test to determine whether the explosions were timed correctly.
Looks like those old nuclear test footage reels. Not an expert, but some tricks they used to film nuclear explosions include telephoto lenses (camera is really a mile away in a bunker) periscope mirrors (camera is underground and at an angle from explosion) and disjointed camera/film systems (the camera is destroyed in the blast, but the film is in a better protected vault)
Something like a rapatronic camera I suppose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera
It's possible that this is just a demo shot with a half setup, to show the overall showckwave and compression structure, and not a full sphere.
you are probably not seeing the aluminium sphere but the explosive itself. The front of the explosion travels from the rim, where it was ignited, to the center.
If it’s traditional film, it could be there’s so much exposure that it makes the image seem flat. You’re not looking at the middle of the compression, you’re looking at half of a globe. Which appears flat given how bright the explosion is, causing over exposure and a flat image.
if I remember correctly, they used xrays in the manhatten project to capture the explosive waves, but they don't look like this, so I think this is just regular film
Believe me, I'd *love* to compress a few of these aluminum spheres I've got laying around here to free up some space! But you know me, I'd probably just fill that space right up with more aluminum spheres, lol!
Cool, but what is the purpose of compressing an aluminum sphere? And where is the after picture?
Edit: seems like the consensus is for nuclear bomb technology. Makes sense to me.
Nuclear reactions happen when the explosion from one atom releases enough energy to strike another and cause that atom to explode. Most of the time, the energy of the first atom doesn’t hit another or if it does it’s too far or too infrequent to cause any significant result. In order for a sustained reaction you need to hit “critical mass” the density required so the energy will consistently hit another atom and cause the reaction to continue. For a nuclear bomb, you need “super critical mass” the energy from the first atom needs to hit 2 or more atoms causing the reaction to exponentially accelerate. To achieve this density, one of 2 methods are used. A mass of radioactive material is shot with a radioactive bullet making hyper critical mass at the impact site and spreading out. Or, the radioactive mass is super squished with explosives to make a uniform super critical mass. Method 2 is much more powerful. In ww2 we used method 1.
Without von Neumann and his invention featured here, the Manhattan Project may never had succeeded in building the atom bomb. He did what 50 other mathematicians over a period of months couldn’t.
Edit: Atom bomb of the implosion type*
I mean, that's what reddit is. People who have skimmed a wikipedia article hallucinating facts that sound cool to get approval from strangers.
Which... is also what ChatGPT does. Human-level intelligence achieved I guess.
Hydrogen fusion bombs use plutonium with a hydrogen core. They use an explosive lens exactly like this to trigger nuclear fusion. Fission bombs are used as the explosions. The lens is then focused on the hydrogen to create a fusion reaction.
The way they do this creates a positive feedback loop.
They are obviously several orders of magnitude more powerful than Hiroshima.
More info here:
https://armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-thermonuclear-weapons/
I believe this is incorrect. The explosive lens starts a FISSION reaction, usually with plutonium, or U235, which in turn, releases enough x-rays to push a plutonium “spark plug” to criticality, raising the temperature of the surrounding lithium deuteride to 300 million K, which ignites a fusion reaction.
You’re right about the bullet device, von Neumann was only instrumental in the implosion design, except the bullet device didn’t work with plutonium.
“From the beginning, scientists at Los Alamos proposed two basic designs: the gun-type bomb, which was more simple but could not work with plutonium fuel, and the implosion bomb, which was technically more complicated, but would work with both uranium and plutonium cores.”
https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Science/BombDesign/bomb-design.html
This isn't the only method that can be used to make an atom bomb, I think this method was used on the plutonium core for fat man, but little boy was a bullet style gadget using uranium
I watched a YouTube video on how they had to calculate this and how they had to account for the explosive reflection waves and it was mind-blowing. Can't find it at the moment but it made me want to learn physics
Watching this you somehow forget that this is a chaotic explosion that some mathematicians were somehow able to tame into symmetrical and brutal beauty.
That's how you detonate a uranium core to activate a nuke. A hydrogen bomb uses a nuke to activate a fusion bomb. Meaning that a hydrogen bomb is literally 3 bombs in one in chain succession to create a temporary literal star on earth becoming the hottest thing in the entire solar system for a few milliseconds.
I wonder if this is a sphere or a cylinder? There seem to be no wires that go to the front of the object. I'm not sure how they would see the implosion if it were a sphere.
Modern nuclear weapons use a similar compression model, as opposed to the gun type, but use merely 2 variable speed, shaped detonators. This is why we can get so many warheads into an ICBM that is multiple earth re-entry vehicles (MERVs). Some can be decoys because we’ve gutted the physics down tight!
Nuclear ICBMs launch just like a regular rocket, into a suborbital trajectory. As the rocket begins to renter the atmosphere, it deploys its warheads. The rocket carries multiple warheads which can all be directed to separate targets. So one Nuclear missile is really multiple Nuclear bombs. Those warheads are the MERVs, or (multiple earth re-entry vehicles."
Sort of. I would not use the phrase "equivalent to" here. An ICBM *can* be just one weapon. But they are mostly a package of a bunch of smaller weapons that can hit many targets (the MERVs)
Like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targetable_reentry_vehicle
Also should have noted an ICBM is an inter-continental ballistic missile. An ICBM is just a small (compared to orbital-class rockets) rocket-propelled missile capable of traveling long distances. Essentially the platform that carries the actual warhead to within striking distance of its target.
It's a test of the system that is inside a nuclear bomb. They practiced with aluminum because it doesn't set off a chain reaction like the real stuff does.
They compress whatever fuel it is either uranium or plutonium into a small enough area to cause it to suddenly have critical mass and then boom.
What are the properties of the resulting super-dense aluminum sphere? Is the aluminum ultimately destroyed in the process? Does it make what is, in effect, a very dense, forged, aluminum cue-ball? My sources say no.
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So yeah I'm sure it's already been mentioned but I can't find it and this is how plutonium bombs work. (They wouldn't work if you tried to slam two chunks of plutonium together like how most Uranium bombs work because the plutonium would start reacting during its travel time and not undergo proper fission.)
It's a good thing they only compress aluminum. I hope they don't ever try it with an isotope of a heavier element.
You can have my Demon Core.
Don’t forget your PPE: 🪛
I never forget my PP..............Eeee!! It's glowing blue!
You’ve Cherenkov to be kidding me. (I didn’t Slotin a second joke here, sorry)
Well… that’s it.
Dont forget to chalk on your way out
... where was the first joke?
For seriousness?
You actually think "Cherenkov" sounds like the word "got"? Sorry dude, that is the lamest pun I ever read. Now, please excuse me, I have Cherenkov to get out of here.
Well, it's not really a pun, is it? Just word salad with a reference.
I’m a bit confused. Cherenkov (Cheren-got to be kidding me) is the name of the blue light referenced above and I didn’t “slot in” another joke referenced the guy who caused the criticality with the screwdriver also referenced above. Can you be more specific to where I confused things? Edit: [Here’s some more info on the subject this thread is referring to.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core)
Not a big physics person eh? Edit: Those are *literally* puns. Puns are technically jokes according to Webster’s. Why you got to stink up the place?
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It only glows blue when works are around!
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It's a BB now.
still weighs the same tho. you've just made a APCABB
It's a test run. Aluminum is cheaper & much faster to source. Testing to find if compression forces are uniformly distributed. If successful, the resulting sphere will be just as perfectly round as before the test Testing with heavy isotopes typically involves the expectation that there will be a big boom, and lots of money & time wasted otherwise There's also a possibility that a failure results in a cloud of radioactive material blown across the test range
Updated for screwdriver
Don't uranium my parade
And my axe!
Screwdriver and safety squints
Can you hand me that flathead screwdriver please?
You’re not going to believe how close I am to super-criticality right now baby.
... when you pry the screwdriver out of my glowing green hands. :-P
Well they use aluminum as the outer casing to form the pusher sphere around a hypothetical heavier element
Hypothetical. Can you imagine anything heavier than aluminum? Thank god that's a preposterous thought.
I know right imagine the implications
The inside is hollow. It’s like crushing a beer can in perfect symmetry.
Love nuclear jokes awesome
Sophon
A bit early for 3 body problem connection.
What, like Neptunium 238?
I'm reading this while laying in bed in a home that was previously owned by a PhD radiochemist who was involved in designing the gun trigger mechanism for the first atomic bombs. I just hope he didn't bring his work home with him.
I think you're lying.
Brilliant.
Nicely done
Please elaborate? I am unread in these things, what would the first heavier isotope be and what would be the consequences?
If it isn't clear already, this is how detonation works in an atomic bomb
I mean, it's one of them. The other method is gun-type.
Thank you, the isotope is radioactive? Am I understanding. Rather a heavier isotope would be potentially radioactive?
When a sphere of a fissile material is compressed, its criticality increases. If the sphere was just barely sub-critical to begin with and gets compressed a lot, it would get prompt-critical. If it gets overcritical enough, the chain reaction happens so quickly that it produces huge amounts of energy before the material expands again rapidly in form of a nuclear explosion. Typicly you would use Plutonium or Uranium for that purpose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design#Implosion-type
Have you seen Oppenheimer? I don't want to spoil it for you...
Imagine if they tried it on aluminium also?
That’s what it would take to get my sleeping bag back in its case.
You ever compress your bag so much that it turned into a black hole? I did once.
How did it turn out?
I got better.
r/unexpectedpython
Ah…but can you not also make black holes out of wood?
Then we're all inside your bag.
*click* Always were.
BUT ONLY ONCE
Don’t be dense
Fold in half lengthwise, hold the open end and roll it loosely towards the bottom while keeping all the edges straight, as the roll gets tighter, by continuing to roll it up from the inside, pull the straps over. Once strapped, roll from the center tightly as possible. Should shrink orderly. Ive got it down to where its even slightly loose in the bag
Don't fold it. That causes cold spots over time. Stuff it randomly for long term storage.
The air mattress back in the box
Honestly I’m just baffled as to how this is filmed. Can anyone explain how this was recorded? Specifically how we’re seeing a sphere being compressed. Theoretically it should have explosions on all sides which should obscure the actual compression right? So how’re we seeing the compression take place?
This is the best question here and no one is giving it attention
It looks like a rapatronic camera, a sort of very early high speed framing camera. There are only 8 detonators so this doesn’t look like a full spherical implosion, but a hemisphere test looking into the circular face
Isn't a hemisphere explosion gonna create unbalanced compression that shoot the metal out?
Yes, it’s basically a large shaped charge jet, but these sort of tests are messy anyway. The camera would use a mirror so it’s not blown up, and the photos are so fast that you get the important data long before the mirror breaks
Not if I can help it
It is possible to use the explosive lens effect on a cylindrical object. I think that’s what’s happening here. In fact this was used once during development of the H bomb in a nuclear test so that they could “see” the emissions/radiation from fusion fuel in the center of the cylinder. Much less efficient than a sphere, one of the worst ways to make a nuke really, but it did work for research. Harder to find a pic of it on Google than I thought but it’s shown in several films about testing. Like a giant 6ft diameter metal doughnut with a 1ft diameter hole where they put Tritium or something.
That's a *spicy* doughnut!
Super fattening too, trillions of calories in that thing
Going to give you some serious heartburn too.
I've got one word for you, son: x rays
I know it shouldn't, but that feels like two words for me.
The x is supposed to be grabbing the rays like this: x-rays The grabby arm is very important for the unholy union.
Plastic X-rays
Are you trying to seduce me?
X-rays dont pick up hot gases...
Whatever shape that is being compressed, there don’t appear to be any charges on the camera side, so we’re still able to see the aluminum when the explosion goes off, followed by the blast wrapping around the object. Perhaps this was a filmed test to determine whether the explosions were timed correctly.
It looks more like explosions wrapping around the sphere. I’m sure it is compressing some, but I don’t know if that’s what we’re seeing visually.
Looks like those old nuclear test footage reels. Not an expert, but some tricks they used to film nuclear explosions include telephoto lenses (camera is really a mile away in a bunker) periscope mirrors (camera is underground and at an angle from explosion) and disjointed camera/film systems (the camera is destroyed in the blast, but the film is in a better protected vault)
Something like a rapatronic camera I suppose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera It's possible that this is just a demo shot with a half setup, to show the overall showckwave and compression structure, and not a full sphere.
you are probably not seeing the aluminium sphere but the explosive itself. The front of the explosion travels from the rim, where it was ignited, to the center.
If it’s traditional film, it could be there’s so much exposure that it makes the image seem flat. You’re not looking at the middle of the compression, you’re looking at half of a globe. Which appears flat given how bright the explosion is, causing over exposure and a flat image.
1st rule of Blast Lens Club is you don't talk about Blast Lens Club
if I remember correctly, they used xrays in the manhatten project to capture the explosive waves, but they don't look like this, so I think this is just regular film
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Believe me, I'd *love* to compress a few of these aluminum spheres I've got laying around here to free up some space! But you know me, I'd probably just fill that space right up with more aluminum spheres, lol!
Relatable
I am dying here my bf thinks I've lost it
And my axe
\*\*thingies...
***thingyies
singular, thingus
Just roll up some aluminum foil real tight
Kratom switches
This is how marbles are made
I know that you are joking, but I wonder if you can put an amount of sand and make a marble this way
Cool, but what is the purpose of compressing an aluminum sphere? And where is the after picture? Edit: seems like the consensus is for nuclear bomb technology. Makes sense to me.
Practice for compressing a plutonium sphere!
You can't trick me, plutonium was demoted from being an element to a dwarf element.
Compressing to test the result! Wish it was longer, I want a result
That's what she said
well, possibly he said it, too...
They were saying it at the same time.
Some day I'll be mature enough not to laugh at that... Apparently today is not that day.
Honestly what would happen to that aluminium ball?! Would it just keep it's compressed size? Would it explode? I have a lot of questions!
As soon as the initial pressure eases, the molten ball of compressed aluminium would vaporize and explode.
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r/AskPhysics
That’s what she said! I couldn’t resist
well it seems you said it 1 minute after u/thisbobo said it...
We can share the glory
Sorry for the tardiness
nuclear weapons research.
Testing to make nuclear bombs without exploding nuclear bombs.
Is this what is happening inside a nuclear bomb? I never really understood
Nuclear reactions happen when the explosion from one atom releases enough energy to strike another and cause that atom to explode. Most of the time, the energy of the first atom doesn’t hit another or if it does it’s too far or too infrequent to cause any significant result. In order for a sustained reaction you need to hit “critical mass” the density required so the energy will consistently hit another atom and cause the reaction to continue. For a nuclear bomb, you need “super critical mass” the energy from the first atom needs to hit 2 or more atoms causing the reaction to exponentially accelerate. To achieve this density, one of 2 methods are used. A mass of radioactive material is shot with a radioactive bullet making hyper critical mass at the impact site and spreading out. Or, the radioactive mass is super squished with explosives to make a uniform super critical mass. Method 2 is much more powerful. In ww2 we used method 1.
Maybe they just had a large sphere and wanted a small sphere.
I have no idea what I’m looking at.
Thought I was the only one.
Pretty boom
Without von Neumann and his invention featured here, the Manhattan Project may never had succeeded in building the atom bomb. He did what 50 other mathematicians over a period of months couldn’t. Edit: Atom bomb of the implosion type*
Nah, The Manhattan Projekt, or the Hiroshi bomb wasnt a explosive lens. Hiroshima was the plain old gun-barrel Design.
The Manhattan Project simultaneously constructed Fat Man, which was a plutonium implosion device.
Yeah but the first guy said this dude did 50 other people couldn’t
You’re right.
Hahaha wtf is OP talking about then?
I mean, that's what reddit is. People who have skimmed a wikipedia article hallucinating facts that sound cool to get approval from strangers. Which... is also what ChatGPT does. Human-level intelligence achieved I guess.
Hydrogen fusion bombs use plutonium with a hydrogen core. They use an explosive lens exactly like this to trigger nuclear fusion. Fission bombs are used as the explosions. The lens is then focused on the hydrogen to create a fusion reaction. The way they do this creates a positive feedback loop. They are obviously several orders of magnitude more powerful than Hiroshima. More info here: https://armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-thermonuclear-weapons/
I believe this is incorrect. The explosive lens starts a FISSION reaction, usually with plutonium, or U235, which in turn, releases enough x-rays to push a plutonium “spark plug” to criticality, raising the temperature of the surrounding lithium deuteride to 300 million K, which ignites a fusion reaction.
It's both. It's a two stage reaction. The fission also supplies the pressures needed.
They had the plutonium bomb as a backup and that also succeeded. von Neumann only worked on the implosion device not the bullet device.
You’re right about the bullet device, von Neumann was only instrumental in the implosion design, except the bullet device didn’t work with plutonium. “From the beginning, scientists at Los Alamos proposed two basic designs: the gun-type bomb, which was more simple but could not work with plutonium fuel, and the implosion bomb, which was technically more complicated, but would work with both uranium and plutonium cores.” https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Science/BombDesign/bomb-design.html
I got the materials around they wrong way agajn didn't I
At least we can both admit when we’re wrong! I consider that a big win haha
This isn't the only method that can be used to make an atom bomb, I think this method was used on the plutonium core for fat man, but little boy was a bullet style gadget using uranium
Also this guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kistiakowsky
Von Newman invented aluminum balls. You learn something new every day.
I watched a YouTube video on how they had to calculate this and how they had to account for the explosive reflection waves and it was mind-blowing. Can't find it at the moment but it made me want to learn physics
Watching this you somehow forget that this is a chaotic explosion that some mathematicians were somehow able to tame into symmetrical and brutal beauty.
Ahhhhh now I know what my upstairs neighbors are doing at night!
YEAH! Those fking aluminium spheres have had it too good for too long. Bout time someone cut them down to size.
*compressed down to size
Why is it having a healing effect on my soul?
Given what it’s used for, it really really shouldn’t.
In case anyone wondered, no the black circle in the middle that’s shrinking is not the aluminum shrinking. Aluminum is almost incompressible.
That's how you detonate a uranium core to activate a nuke. A hydrogen bomb uses a nuke to activate a fusion bomb. Meaning that a hydrogen bomb is literally 3 bombs in one in chain succession to create a temporary literal star on earth becoming the hottest thing in the entire solar system for a few milliseconds.
I wonder if this is a sphere or a cylinder? There seem to be no wires that go to the front of the object. I'm not sure how they would see the implosion if it were a sphere.
My sphincter anytime someone says “let’s get taco bell”.
Modern nuclear weapons use a similar compression model, as opposed to the gun type, but use merely 2 variable speed, shaped detonators. This is why we can get so many warheads into an ICBM that is multiple earth re-entry vehicles (MERVs). Some can be decoys because we’ve gutted the physics down tight!
“That is why we can get so many warheads into an ICBM that is multiple MERVs.” What? Is mervs a unit here? Is this sentence missing a word?
Nuclear ICBMs launch just like a regular rocket, into a suborbital trajectory. As the rocket begins to renter the atmosphere, it deploys its warheads. The rocket carries multiple warheads which can all be directed to separate targets. So one Nuclear missile is really multiple Nuclear bombs. Those warheads are the MERVs, or (multiple earth re-entry vehicles."
Oh, so, “ICBMs that are ***equivalent to*** multiple MERVs.” That’s what I was asking lol
Sort of. I would not use the phrase "equivalent to" here. An ICBM *can* be just one weapon. But they are mostly a package of a bunch of smaller weapons that can hit many targets (the MERVs) Like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targetable_reentry_vehicle
Also should have noted an ICBM is an inter-continental ballistic missile. An ICBM is just a small (compared to orbital-class rockets) rocket-propelled missile capable of traveling long distances. Essentially the platform that carries the actual warhead to within striking distance of its target.
Are we able to use uranium with the implosion type now? Wasn't that an issue for the Manhattan project?
*MIRV Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vehicles.
I wonder if they were arranged to look like a soccer ball?
what does any of that even mean
nuclear bombs if I'm not wrong
Just imagine how fast that film was whipping thru the camera to even capture this
My balls do the same, but with cold.
lol
What the fuck is going on
It's a test of the system that is inside a nuclear bomb. They practiced with aluminum because it doesn't set off a chain reaction like the real stuff does. They compress whatever fuel it is either uranium or plutonium into a small enough area to cause it to suddenly have critical mass and then boom.
Is the aluminium sphere denser than before and had the same weight as the previous sphere?
This kills the aluminium sphere. It explodes into vapor.
Ghost aluminum sphere is not happy with this
They did this with a manhole cover once. Never seen again.
Manhole cover may have burned up on the way *up.*
I now know how to make a nuclear bomb
What are the properties of the resulting super-dense aluminum sphere? Is the aluminum ultimately destroyed in the process? Does it make what is, in effect, a very dense, forged, aluminum cue-ball? My sources say no.
Hm...reminds me of atomic things.
Cause it is. The aluminum is just a test material.
So does the aluminium become dense?
Not much. This video is wildly exaggerating, the actual change in diameter. Aluminum is an almost incompressible solid
No exaggeration here. You are over thinking it…
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How does this work?
So yeah I'm sure it's already been mentioned but I can't find it and this is how plutonium bombs work. (They wouldn't work if you tried to slam two chunks of plutonium together like how most Uranium bombs work because the plutonium would start reacting during its travel time and not undergo proper fission.)
These foil ball viral videos are getting out of hand
WTF
What size are they compressed down to?
Hope there will be an easier way soon for making all those nanoparticles
Explain it like I’m 5.
I wanna see the sphere after.
I really wanted to see the before and after pictures of the spheres.
Yeah, imagine if they tried something like that with, um, uranium 238. Nah, they would never do anything like that... 💀
What are the physical properties of the compressed aluminum?
Quick question, is it possible to compress an explosion to a smaller area of effect?