phcorcoran

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phcorcoran , to Ask Lemmy in How to make a month go by as fast as possible other than sleeping

Getting books from the library to read?

phcorcoran , to Ask Science in How dense would the atmosphere need to be to result in a cataclysmic chain reaction during a nuclear explosion?

Thank you, the page you sourced references a 2024 paper inspired by the Oppenheimer movie that was super interesting to read

phcorcoran , to Ask Science in How dense would the atmosphere need to be to result in a cataclysmic chain reaction during a nuclear explosion?

I don't know what chain reaction exactly they were thinking of, but from modern fusion research, I believe we can confidently say that the atmosphere would need to be interior-of-a-large-star-level dense, and even then I'm not sure you'd get nitrogen fusing with anything without a lot of hydrogen or helium around. Nitrogen-nitrogen fusion seems extremely implausible for sure

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