It is funny that you bring up the "Castle" thing, because one of the guys was spouting off about Castle "Tune." Are you familiar with that.

Your statement does make it sound like what they were arguing about, though.

Very impressive, I might add!

Originally posted by Truth1000
It is funny that you bring up the "Castle" thing, because one of the guys was spouting off about Castle "Tune." Are you familiar with that.

There was a Castle Koon series, which tried to use unenriched lithium. Livermore's thinking was that since Castle Bravo worked so surprisingly well (to the point of being a Bad Thing), that you didn't need extra Li6 at all, and could count on the Li7 to do the whole job, but they weren't counting on some other issues, mainly that you had to get the reaction going pretty well before the Li7 would give you the Tritium Surprise.

So Koon failed - the shot was a dud. Only the primary and secondary sparkplug went off, there wasn't a fusion reaction at all.

Originally posted by Bedlam

If one had a black box, and when an electron passed through, out the other side of the box came (with some inefficiency and a great deal of energy) a positron. Ignoring the contents of the box, is the transformation allowed by charge conjugation?

edit: also thus my oblique statement about c, cp, cpt violation

Without anything else coming out?

I dunno, but I thought that lepton number was definitely conserved, so either electrons/electron neutrinos gotta come out too.

But otherwise I think it's beyond me.


[edit on 28-6-2010 by mbkennel]

Bedlam,

Sorry. I am cert!in you are correct. That conversation was quite some time ago, and I clearly did not recall it correctly.

Again, my friend, you certainly seem to know your material!

I certainly look forward to discussing some upcoming topics with you, when we can focus a bit more on some of the material in which I am more effectively trained and experienced.

Although I had little interest shown in my thread about the potential conflicts between India and China, China is THE most important player for serious conflict in the 21st Century. It is far too easy for American leaders and financiers to underestimate the likelihood of the Chinese to grow into the first global MEGA-power, as they are referred to in the book that is about to be released.

Do not forget that they were the victims of the two Opium Wars, and that they blame the British and the West for all of the drug-related problems that devastated their people and nation for many generations afterward. Do not forget that they had little assistance by the Western nations while the Japanese war machine rolled through Manchuria in 1931. In reality, that was the actual date the Second World War was initiated.

I certainly do not want to reveal any significant amount of information from this book series, but the reasons for our needed concerns with the Chinese. Until we clearly recognize the dangers we face from China, we will be in a similar situation as when we set up Adolph Hitler to keep Germany from falling to the Communists. And we are all quite familiar with how THAT underestimation turned out!