Re: PHYSICS/SPACE: Legitimate time traval proposal etc.

From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 09:57:38 MDT


On Sunday 20 May 2001 21:53, Patrick McCuller wrote:

> PS You could make a nuclear bomb with just a handful of plutonium atoms and
> a time machine. Just loop the atoms until you've got critical mass, add
> water, and stir.

It seems more likely that you could only make a supercritical assembly that,
by extremely unlikely chance, never exploded. If it explodes, it can't get to
the point where it explodes, right?

-- 
Randall <wolfkin@freedomspace.net>
The State is an abstraction devouring the life of the people.
- Michael Bakunin, Letters on Patriotism, 1869


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