In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:16:45 -0500: Hi, [snip] >And it will melt >locally long before you get multiple generations >of reactions from a large fraction of the total >population of deuterons, because heat conducts >very slowly compared to the timescale of a >nuclear reaction. It conducts at the speed of >sound.
The speed of sound in metals is on the order of thousands of meters / second. If heat conducted at that speed you would burn your fingers the instant you put your teaspoon in your coffee. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
