Gamma Ray Bomb

"robert arndt" wrote in message
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"Eric Moore" wrote in message
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Work is being done on a Gamma Ray Bomb. See:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/...018361,00.html

How would a weapon like this compare to the current generation of
nukes?
Just curious.

It sounds bogus to me.

So do most of your replies!

I'm no physicist but a claim like

And no scientist, bioengineer, intelligence operative, representative
of any Govt., and no aviation expert either...

Correct


"Just one gram of the explosive would store more energy than
50kg of conventional TNT"

Needs a lot of evidence and thus far I have seen none

Keith

What do you want the US Govt. to do... Fed-Ex one to your doorstep
when its completed?


No I want more factual information from the people who wrote
the article

Rob

p.s. Who needs a troll when you have a resident egomaniac like Keith
Wilshaw at RAM?

Pot Kettle etc

Keith

"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"robert arndt" wrote in message
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"Eric Moore" wrote in message
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Work is being done on a Gamma Ray Bomb. See:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/...018361,00.html

How would a weapon like this compare to the current generation
of
nukes?
Just curious.

It sounds bogus to me.

So do most of your replies!

I'm no physicist but a claim like

And no scientist, bioengineer, intelligence operative, representative
of any Govt., and no aviation expert either...

Correct


"Just one gram of the explosive would store more energy than
50kg of conventional TNT"

Needs a lot of evidence and thus far I have seen none

Keith

What do you want the US Govt. to do... Fed-Ex one to your doorstep
when its completed?


No I want more factual information from the people who wrote
the article

The New Scientist article the Grauniad one was based on is quite interesting

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994049

Best

John

So - "Four years ago scientists at U/Texas showed how to trigger a
change in half-life." Funny we never read about it in Science, Science
News, Nature or Scientific American nor has the Nobel Committee acted
on this. Nothing (other than the journalists' citation) has been
bruited about on this. Personally, my idea is that the wishful
thinkers are kicking about the old matter-antimatter reaction. Only
two problems - 1) making a significant quantity of antimatter and 2)
keeping it from reacting with ordinary matter. Solve those two
problems and you have a gamma ray bomb plus any size weapon you want.
Meanwhile I'll be searching UT to see what they actually did four
years ago.
Walt BJ

So - "Four years ago scientists at U/Texas showed how to trigger a
change in half-life." Funny we never read about it in Science, Science
News, Nature or Scientific American nor has the Nobel Committee acted
on this. Nothing (other than the

Scientists of Institute for Transuran in Karsruhe Germany reduced the decay
period of Jod128 from million years to a couple of minutes using laser
pulses,but they did not get any nobel prize either.

"Denyav" wrote in message
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So - "Four years ago scientists at U/Texas showed how to trigger a
change in half-life." Funny we never read about it in Science, Science
News, Nature or Scientific American nor has the Nobel Committee acted
on this. Nothing (other than the

Scientists of Institute for Transuran in Karsruhe Germany reduced the
decay
period of Jod128 from million years to a couple of minutes using laser
pulses,but they did not get any nobel prize either.


Last I heard the highest number transuranic element was 118 and its
half life was less than a millisecond.

You've been hallucinating again Denyav

Keith

Last I heard the highest number transuranic element was 118 and its
half life was less than a millisecond.

You've been hallucinating again Denyav

It proves that your knowledge base needs updating Jod128 is highly radioactive
by-product of nuclear reactors,it decays into stabile Jod129 in million years.
Karlsruhe scientists shortened this process to a few minutes using laser
pulses.
If Karlsruhe is too far for you, you might want to contact University of
Strathclyde in Glasgow,Glasgow scientists were also equally succesful in this
issue.(They did not get any Nobel Prize either!)

"Denyav" wrote in message
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Last I heard the highest number transuranic element was 118 and its
half life was less than a millisecond.

You've been hallucinating again Denyav

It proves that your knowledge base needs updating Jod128 is highly
radioactive
by-product of nuclear reactors,it decays into stabile Jod129 in million
years.
Karlsruhe scientists shortened this process to a few minutes using laser
pulses.
If Karlsruhe is too far for you, you might want to contact University of
Strathclyde in Glasgow,Glasgow scientists were also equally succesful in
this
issue.(They did not get any Nobel Prize either!)

What they did at Strathclyde was speed up the decay
of IODINE 129 to iodine 128

That element is represented by the letter I

At least try and get some of the basics right when you bull****
there's a good chap.

Keith