Stars are the visible manifestation of the meta-stable equilibrium between the explosive power of fusion and the compressive power of gravity. In the end gravity wins - for the most part (or percentage of mass that is)
Chris From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Ruquist Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 5:23 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Nuclear power Stars are essentially fusion bombs and stars can explode. It's just going in the direction of higher energy bombs. Not sure what comes after supernovas unless you are willing to believe following Poplawski theory that black holes can give birth the baby universes via baby big bangs On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 8:05 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: I don't quite see what you're getting at here. On 25 November 2013 13:48, Richard Ruquist <yann...@gmail.com> wrote: It may not stop in the other direction. For example to make a supernova you need fusion. Perhaps it stops at the Big Bang, but it ain't necessarily so. On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 7:15 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: And to make a chemical bomb explode you need a detonator, I assume, and to make that you need a source of electricity, I imagine, which is also down to chemical energy of some sort. However I imagine the buck stops here, or hereabouts. On 25 November 2013 13:12, Richard Ruquist <yann...@gmail.com> wrote: That reminds me of turtles all the way down. To make a fusion bomb, you need a fission bomb; and to make a fission bomb you need a chemical bomb. On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 5:40 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: On 24 November 2013 21:36, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: And - PLEASE - do not forget the G U N S ! (Not that only guns could kill, but they are the easiest to use in killing other human beings. And it brings huge advantage to entrepreneurs and State Governments). We should not prohibit guns either (although we could enforce serious regulations, and try to avoid selling efficacious automated guns to neurotic kids). In principle, I am in favor of the personal atomic bomb (take this with some amount of grains of salt). Also my viewpoint. With a grain of salt. Actually it doesn't seem hard to make an atomic bomb if you have the materials. It's kind of surprising no one has done so (or stolen one for ransom, as per "Thunderball".) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:everything-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. 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