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- From: ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE
- Subject: Brigsten, Mallove Fusion Technology Draft.
- Message-ID: <920817133057.20203560@FNALD.FNAL.GOV>
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Reply-To: ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE
- Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:47:35 GMT
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- Jed Rothwell sent me a copy of the Brigsten-Mallove Fusion Technology Paper.
- They have obviously been given the word, as the abstract recently posted has
- been cleaned up from the version I have. My version reads like an MIT press
- release.
-
- There is not much content in the paper. But one thing is amazing. They
- claim that we don't see the 3He and 4He products is that they come off at
- "ranging up to 5.59 Gev" very high energy. That's 5590000000 ev folks!
-
- The claim is that the heat seen is due to the relatively small interaction
- rate as they leave the cell. Hmmm! I am glad that I am only seeint a few
- mw. With watts, I would worry about the stability of the concrete in the
- basement walls.
-
- My problem with this is what does the alpha particle push on to leave at
- 5.59 Gev? I always had the same problem with Superman. Why didn't he
- just punch a hole in the sidewalk when he tried to leap a tall building?
-
- Is it possible that Brigsten-Mallove don't know that if something goes east
- something else has to go west?? Am I being asked to believe in particles
- that just come out of the blue with momentum? It is just too much for a
- poor engineer to contemplate. I will therefor leave it to you QM guys to
- sort out.
-
- Tom Droege
-