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- From: edwlt12@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (MIKE JAMISON)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Stimulated Emission
- Message-ID: <29JUL199212110773@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 17:11:00 GMT
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- Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
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- While thinking about the Ying device, and how to exploit its effect without
- the continuous use of a gamma source (i.e. making a gamma ray laser), I was
- struck by the following thought:
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- 1) If D+D+gamma -> He4+2gamma exists, then:
-
- 2) (your favorite gamma source)+gamma -> fragments + 2gamma
-
- should also exist.
-
- In other words, if gamma induced fusion exists, then gamma induced fission
- should also exist.
-
- Conversely, if gamma induced fission doesn't exist, then gamma induced
- fusion won't, either.
-
- Are there any known cases of gamma induced fission?
-
- Mike Jamison
-