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hard? take two subcritical masses of fissile material and slam them together. this is 1940s technology
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 6mo ago

except doesn't fission cause the emission of intense amounts of heat, which are more than sufficient to boil plutonium into gas?

nuclear fission is not the same as molecular fission. even you can substitute, to some extent, the oxidiser, and more heat lowers the threshold for chain reactions to occur

nuclear fission requires the metallic heavy isotopic material to stay solid long enough for enough of it to break apart. i just can't see how it's going to work to make that plutonium be under enough pressure to maintain its close proximity before all bets are off when the atoms are suddenly thousands or millions of times further apart. as gas.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 6mo ago

in my opinion, the amount of latent heat in some room temperature plutonium is the key reason why you can't make it cause a fission chain reaction of any usable size.

i'm not sure what its latent heat capacity is, i know that water has the greatest latent heat capacity of all materials known, and additionally, metals are very heat conductive, which is another way of saying that when you put heat in, it comes out quite easily and quickly.

however, if you break the structure, as must happen when you break a nucleus, all the electrons are liberated and all the latent heat (which is basically captured infrared photons) are also liberated, and are absorbed and conducted well by the remainder of the solid, and rapidly turning into liquid, plutonium metal.

when a metal becomes liquid, right off the bat it expans by about 3x or more in volume, which is another way of saying that your fission nucleus strike precision now has to rise by this factor of expansion

add a few more successful hits and there is a certain point at which the amount of heat, which presumably is all trapped inside the implosion device of an alleged plutonium based explosive charge, by both the mechanical feature of it being a metallic sealed vessel and by the implosion force of your shape charges, the entire mass of plutonium is going to reach above the triple point and be ready to turn into gas the moment that the compression and containment cease to hold.

i would estimate that this point is probably a pretty small percentage of fissioned material because the strongest implosion vessel i can conceive of would have to be made out of solid, inch or more thick tungsten, at which point you know that if the thermal yield of the fission so far has achieved the point where this metal starts to melt, just so happens to also be in the range of the boiling point of plutonium

so, if you can explain where the kinetic energy (not heat) is coming from to rupture this violently instead of melting it like a baloon lit by a lighter (or like a hindenberg, hissing a violent burst of combusting hydrogen out the first crack that opens) and providing your kinetic force (not just heat) then i'm sorry but your plutonium is going to be no more than 10-20% fissioned, and the rest is going to be boiled, and even the strongest conceivable containment vessel around it, surrounded by the delicate temperature regulation gear that is required because of the micron tolerance of the whole apparatus to failing to achieve even this pissy amount of fission, is just going to be a nasty dirty bomb that fortunately is only a few kilos of metal boiled rapidly into vapor, and there certainly isn't going to be a great flash and much wailing and gnashing of teeth. maybe some cancer. a little.

anyway, do the math yourself. there is a good text you can read that goes through every sordid detail of the alleged nuclear fission chain reaction-and-hypothetical-explosion story, it's got more holes in it than grandma's magnum opus doily.

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Captain's Nostr Log 6mo ago

"when a metal becomes liquid, right off the bat it expans by about 3x or more in volume"

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 6mo ago

i read about this, actually plutonium is unusual in how much it expands as a liquid but it's only some fraction like 20%

but gas is a massive increase in distance between particles, obviously.

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Captain's Nostr Log 6mo ago

with enough compressive force, the material will stay compact enough

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 6mo ago

it's simple as this:

there is nothing so special about government scientists, who supposedly have the monopoly on being able to make this supposed mechanism work, when they did the computations on computers that were barely more than calculators, they didn't test the components of the system properly, and somehow they magically made it work the first time, and none of the "science" has ever been verified by anyone without a top secret clearance.

it's a scam.

it has never happened that one of these alleged explosions occurred outside of "top secret", fully stage managed conditions. and the science of the physics of radiactive decay is known well enough that if terrorists were able to get themselves a bunch of pure enough plutonium, they WOULD have used it by now.

if it were possible.

it's not possible.

best you can get out of these things is a dirty bomb. most of the publicly released info about the devices is explosives. they would make a bit of a mess but the physical damage created by the supposed hiroshima and nagasaki bombs, when examined by experts in conventional explosives, were underwhelmed by the damage and an extraordinary amount of structures and even things like power poles somehow withstood being right underneath the detonation. just like conventional explosives do.

it's not questioning the reality of nuclear fission.

it's questioning the reality of the godlike burning the sky doomsday narrative around it, even though there is no verification or facts coming from anyone who hasn't got the blessing of the Gods, i mean government.

there's no way, if it were real technology, that they wouldn't have used it by now. it's a bogeyman. it's like the aztecs saying "if you don't let us kill these virgins brutally the sun will burn your crops".

it's bullshit.

like all of the supposed weapons of mass destruction.

they don't exist. it's theatre, to keep the sheep in line, threat that they have convinced everyone to tremble in fear of, if the enemy has it, to support invading the enemy's country to "remove their nuclear weapons"

pure bullshit. pure government, megalomaniacal fantasy.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 6mo ago

i might just point out, and this is a major engineering issue, that the density of metals decreases a lot between a very low temperature (eg -50'C) and a hot day (40-70'C) that it can cause railways to to buckle and become impossible to traverse.

it's not a huge differential, but it's enough to destroy the precision of a machine. a lot of machines made from metal are designed to tolerate this expansion by forming them at a size where they have the optimal tolerances at "working temperature"

"nuclear bombs" suffer from this same problem, but they have much greater intolerance for temperatures causing the uranium/plutonium metal expanding and shrinking, because they require a precise mating of carefully machined surfaces.

this is another aspect of the bullshit factor of the nuclear bomb narrative.

the "gun" style impactor for triggering fission is not so dangerous in the sense that such swelling won't triggen an unintentional meltdown, but it prevents them from detonating (supposedly) properly because they won't mate neatly unless you have a very big and bulky temperature control system around the device.

the imploder style, also suffers from this problem, because not only do the metallic parts shrink and expand with temperature, so do the explosives, and the trigger mechanisms can be affected also by this change of size.

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vinney...axkl 6mo ago

wild that this is where this thread started, talking about tags: nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqnyqqft6tz9g9pyaqjvp0s4a4tvcfvj6gkke7mddvmj86w68uwe0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqzpq8e84ycl96hw78zc9k3ekn9v2mpdsae46wjdpqlqlxvyyy2rlkug6tkdq

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 6mo ago

nah, these are just subjects that are concurrently on my mind at the moment.

the question of whether nuclear detonation can exist in my opinion can be summarised by the fact that nobody bothered to make a small scale version. where are the 10x lighter explosives using plutonium then? if it works? why would you not want this. especially if you are deploying it with a drone.

many scifi writers have even speculated on this subject in fiction but the reality is

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freemymind 🇨🇭 6mo ago

Somepeople are just so desprate to be heared, they creat fantastic stories in the hope someone beliefs them too. Critiquing science, without the slightest understanding what science means really.

I feel on one side bad for those- lost souls. On the other side there are also some who just rather want to beliefe a spectacular lie instead of a unspectacular truth.

What all #conspiracy theories have in common is, that they base on the idea, that big changes in reality need an equal amount of effort to be taken for it to happen. So when there is a big impact like the No-King-Demonstrations in the US, they assume there has to be a big organisation behind it.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 6mo ago

it is also true that in many cases, engineers have worked around problems like these by using ceramic components, which have a much lower coefficient of size/density reaction to especially higher temperatures. mechanically, with tight tolerances and precise forming, such devices can have components made out of ceramics to eliminate this problem, and additionally, reduce the amount of effort that needs to be made to control the tolerance of a device that spends much of its life idle, by buffering the thermal transfer into the internal workings.

in many cases, the strain that a ceramic part can tolerate without fracture is comparable to a metallic part, and many designs have switched to using ceramic parts for these components, but it's not a silver bullet because if the device vibrates a lot, momentary force can exceed the breaking strength of the material and render any advantages of temperature tolerance moot.

also, different metals have different thermal conductivity and coefficients of expansion, and sometimes just switching from steel to a different alloy with nickel, chromium, or other metals (eg vanadium, molybdenum) can solve such issues of thermal expansion, and for example titanium has a lot of advantage over steel in some applications because it has a lower coefficient of expansion and a higher elasticity of even the most carefully tempered steel part, with the additional advantage of being corrosion resistant and having a higher melting point.

for similar reasons sometimes it is more effective to switch out steel for aluminium for a part, because weight and thermal conductivity are advantageous, aluminium is a bit like a poor-man's silver in this respect, to the point where it has been substituted, stupidly, by some telecomms companies for copper (due to the cost) resulting in wiring that catastrophically fails with age because aluminium is much easire to oxidise, once it faces any kind of mechanical stress or friction, and once the oxides start to form channels into the metal their conductivity properties fail and start to switch to being capacitative, or even resistive.

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vinney...axkl 6mo ago

I gotta say this is a "conspiracy theory" I've never heard before and it is easily the wildest one of all. beyond flat earth or yellow cube or UAP or Morgellon's.

do you have further sources on this?

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YODL 6mo ago

I know the book referenced. Brb

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YODL 6mo ago

This the book.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 6mo ago

check my profile about/bio section it's right at the top

took me about 5 hours to read through it and i'm convinced that the whole thing is a government fraud, designed as a political tool (especially when you read about the actual events around the japanese "bombings")