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- From: logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan)
- Subject: Re: The importance of being chained
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 18:05:02 GMT
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- poirier@ellerbe.rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier) writes:
- >A third possibility is that the "stimulated emission" may have a narrow
- >cross-section around the path of the stimulating photon. If so, and if
- >the emitted gammas follow the path of the initiator exactly, the cascade
- >should be limited in scope: each incident gamma might sweep out a very
- >small fraction of the volume of Pd. This effect is independent of the
- >effects John Logajan proposes, and any or all might be operating to suppress
- >the mushroom clouds.
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- Actually, I think it fits under the broad definition of chain reaction.
- I wasn't trying to define what the chain reaction really was, or whether
- it was even nuclear or chemical in nature.
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- My only point was that if there is a statistical correlation between the
- application of incident bosons and heat gains (in excess of a one-for-one
- correspondence to either nuclear or chemical reactions) then some sort of
- chain must exist. Your proposal certainly falls within the genus "chain",
- and it has a nice "moderating" mechanism to boot.
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