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- From: logajan@SLEEPY.NETWORK.COM (John Logajan)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Microscopic Rube Goldbergs
- Message-ID: <9207280659.AA08348@sleepy.network.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 06:59:58 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Dick Blue writes:
- > Can anyone explain how these puny [1.5 MeV] photons are going to do what
- > 23 MeV photons probably don't do either?
-
- Maybe nothing directly. Maybe something through some atomic sized Rube
- Goldberg chain reaction -- the photon illuminates the cheese which starts
- the mouse running, which pulls the string tied to his foot ...
-
- This whole body of anecdotal indications of self-sustaining chain reactions
- points to some sort of "store and delayed release" mechanism. There might
- be more than one way to get into the initial first state. Have all isomers
- been identified and characterized? How are they born, how long do they live,
- how do they die?
-
- -- John Logajan
-