Re: [Phys-l] A-Bomb

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

At 11:18 PM 7/8/2006, you wrote:
> Was there anyone of whom it could be said that s/he invented the A-Bomb?
>
> Did anyone ever receive a patent for the invention?
>
> Did anyone ever get rich from the invention?
>
> Jim
>
> J M Green
> Email:  MailTo:JMGreen@sisna.com
> WWW: HTTP://users.sisna.com/JMGreen


The memoir which related moving two sub-critical masses closer to each other on
 the lab bench with nearly disastrous results suggests to me with 
the benefit of
retro-acuity  that shooting a half mass at another was not such a leap in the
dark at that time.

Before there were appreciable masses of enriched Uranium, I suppose 
that building
enrichment works were the real bullet to bite.

I still recall listening to a conversation between several folks who 
appeared to
 be oil-well blow out specialists on an airline trip.
When the conversation turned to "instantaneous"fuse, one casually mentioned
wrapping a sphere in some instantaneous explosive tape  for a nuclear weapon
 implosion detonator, the dominant method now in use apparently.

I caught just the faintest leakage of conversation elsewhere about the
advantageous paneling of the regulation soccer ball in this context.
 And I hear in the last few days that the supplier of world cup 
match balls creates
a new paneling design from competition to competition as a design 
exercise, aspiring
 to closer fits to sphericity.



Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!