In this paper http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/lib-www/la-pubs/00350316.pdf
you can read the detailed description (including schematics) of the high accuracy timing system built to control the Manhattan Project's Trinity test - the first nuclear device explosion. This is an absolutely fascinating read. It is stunning what they did with the materials at hand and especially in the short time frame between when the Gadget was fairly certain to work and the test explosion. The site time reference standard was, for example, a 1khz tuning fork! Yet they managed to time certain critical events to better than 0.1 microsecond and do so despite having to drive miles of transmission line. Remarkable. Incidentally, pretty much the entire non-classified Las Alamos online library is available here. http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanldocs.html Plan on spending a few weeks.... This is the status of the library as of shortly before 9/11. The cowards of 9/11 within the government yanked all this down post-9/11 but fortunately many of us were busily hoovering the site so not much was lost. John -- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.neon-john.com http://www.johndearmond.com <-- best little blog on the net! Tellico Plains, Occupied TN There are only 10 types of people in this world Those who understand _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
