Comments by "Dr Gamma D" (@DrDeuteron) on "Oppenheimer's Apocalypse Math" video.

  1.  @drdca8263  Fission physics doesn't need color confinement. Regarding classical chromodynamics: you can write down the eq., but I don't think anybody's solved them...but there is stuff out there, at least for 'classical' mesons. It's so non-linear and complicated.
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  2. Hans Bethe figured out solar fusion in 1936, iirc. He solved core-collapse supernova in the 1990s.
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  3. ultra sensitive detectors...signals with 10's of counts per month.
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  4.  @my3dviews  ppl still use it, and no-one cares in the business, unless its's a peer reviewed publication. Ofc, ppl also say "one mega hurt" for 1 MHz. Ppl also say "electron volts" when they mean eV/c^2....and again, no one cares.
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  5.  @drdca8263  I remember Steve Koonin calling a Uranium atom a "macroscopic quantum object".
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  6. what he said, but a 6 mile 40 mile per second meteor dumps its gigatons into a 500 cubic mile volume in 150 milliseconds, while a fission devices dumps 20 kT into a few cubic inches in 10-100 ns. The power density of the later is insane, while for the former...it's just the total energy that is nuts.
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  7.  @senatorbrogle  electrons aren't relevant for fission.
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  8.  @emilysmith6897  we live in a meta-stable world. If you don't believe me, set your curtains on fire. Your house (and the air around it) would rather be smoke and ash. OF course, the lowest energy state is a blackhole...but who wants that.
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  9.  @my3dviews  I'm talking about people who split atoms, land on Mars, and build black space stuff, so: the real world. No. One. Cares.
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  10. when the weather report says 159,999,999,000,727 degrees.......Celsius ...it's bad.
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  11.  @WilliamHostman  fusion is not a chain reaction, it’s a sustained burn. Chain reaction refers to something that grows geometrically…of which all I can think of is fission, or maybe the early stages of a pandemic.
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  12. remember the 57m region that needs to be heated to 116GK?
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  13.  @ramdamdam1402  that was the estimated volume to achieve a burn. The highest energy cosmic ray, the oh my god particle, had a collision energy around 40 exa-kelvin, which is well over the temperature to turn nuclei into quark gluon plasma….way beyond any fusion temp, but the total energy is around 50 J….typical baseball energy. So whatever go hit, probable a nitrogen nucleus, was obliterated into a hadron shower, that was fortunately caught by the Flys Eye detector.
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