X-Message-Number: 19260 From: Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:27:28 EDT Subject: Flea jumps --part1_105.1706cf08.2a37b730_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit flea jumping Flea main project, the brain reader, implies a lot of rather special technologies, each is a gamble and some thinking must be invested in alternative solutions. The main challenge may be the nuclear pumping with entangled optical photons. Making the holographic mirrors for that task is a big project in itself. So, it may be useful to find an alternative. The only one is a fusion device. With He3 load and shapped charge, there may be a single domain of nuclear spin orientation when fusion starts. The down cascading of nuclei may then produce highly entangled X-rays in a laser process. Such radiation would be directly usable in the interferometer, without recourse to non-linear states of individual nuclei. This process works only if nuclear spins are cooled at bulk scale. There is no way to get it outside fast compression out of thermodynamical equilibrium (The volume shrink faster than the temperature can scale up, so entropy must go down. Because this is contrary to the second thermodynamics principle, some disorder is pumped at another scale, namely the nuclear one. When all nuclei are cooled they fall in the same quantum state and fusion can start. We know that in military devices, compression is produced by the rocket effect generated by x-ray evaporation of an outher capsule. The X-rays come from a fission trigger. Great efforts have been spent to duplicate that with laser or particle beams with no success up to now. Powerful electric discharges in a double crown of wires seem a better solution. That is all for official civilian researches. Recently, a system dubbed lasertron has produced (on the paper!) another way to ignition: Very strong laser pulses along a rod would generate a strong electromagnetic field able to accelerate a plasma until fusion energy. This would work too with radio frequency waves sent along a "needle" with a reflector at end. That kind of fusion device would not produce a coherent high entanglement X-ray pulse, but its X-ray flash could be used in a staged device to compress a larger fusion load. A fast gun using solid rocket propellant load could launch a shell at 3000 m/s. If stopped in a magnetic field in an Electro-Magnetic Pulse device, it could, after proper shapping of the pulse, produce the needle field of a lasertron. Another gun solution, is to fire two hollow shapped shells one against the other and put at the contact point a frozen load made from deuterium-tritium mixed with xenon. With rocket propellant and litium hydride, the speed may be near 4000 m/s. Shock waves in a tungsten shapped charge my propel a dart at four time that value, so in head to head collision the relative speed would be 32 km/s. Compressing hydrogen-xenon, a product with low sound speed that way would pump entropy from the nuclear level. A trigger (classical) X-ray source would then start the fusion process. The velocity in the above solution is at the limit to start fusion with one dimensional compression. It don't produce neither a single nuclear spin domain. The fusion pulse would then be used to compress a larger shapped charge. If the hydrogen-xenon charge was suppressed, an aluminium ball could convert the impact energy into X-rays, producing a 100 nano-second pulse. Specially studied optical fibers could compress in time that to 10 ns, giving a better rocket compression effect. The canadian engeener John Bull seems to have studied a similar system: A big gun worked as the first stage of a two stages gun, the second using helium. A shapped hollow shell would have been launched at 9 Km/s, producing at impact a 36 Km/s dart. Two head to head such guns would have started without problem a fusion reaction in hydrogen-xenon. He was killed by Israeli secret service when he built one such gun in Irak. A rocket could not launch such a nuke, but it could have been put on an oil tanker. With staging, the explosion at sea of a 100 + Mt device would have drown Israel under a giant tsunami. A powerfull, pulse mode MHD generator could produce a discharge in helium, able to launch a shapped charge at 10+ km/s, without supergun. This seems to be the best laboratory scale fusion device without fission trigger. Megaton yeld would be only two stages or so away. Y.B. for Dr. Strangelove :-) --part1_105.1706cf08.2a37b730_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19260