From: Nathan Pettigrew <nathanp@M...>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:16:24 -0500
Subject: weapons potential?
Mini-supernova created in the lab http://www.msnbc.com/news/603958.asp OK, I know... Only a nut would be thinking about how to supe up one
weapons potential?
From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:25:32 -0500
Subject: Re: weapons potential?
Ugh, geek humor. *shudder* *** By then fiddling with the magnetic fields, the researchers shrunk the condensate and forced a tiny explosion, which they say resembles a supernova, albeit in a microscopic level. The team has dubbed the explosion a bosenova. *** Have to admit, though, 50% conversion, if true, is DAMN impressive. Who needs antimatter?
From: Roger Books <books@m...>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 08:37:19 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: weapons potential?
> On 25-Jul-01 at 19:27, devans@uneb.edu (devans@uneb.edu) wrote: Who > needs antimatter? In the interview with the scientists who ran the experiment you find they suspect either the missing atoms were blown out to fast for them to pick up _or_ formed molecules their equipment couldn't pick up. In other words they don't suspect matter->energy conversion. You have to follow things in MSNBC back to the source, they tend to sensationalize a bit.