Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 03:21:42 UTC No. 16111540

Yes

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 03:27:35 UTC No. 16111546

No

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 03:29:05 UTC No. 16111549

Maybe

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 03:33:36 UTC No. 16111555

About 50% chance

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 04:43:35 UTC No. 16111599

Some say it either can or cannot be done

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 04:47:41 UTC No. 16111604

>neutral responses

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 04:50:02 UTC No. 16111607

possible or plausible?

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 04:50:10 UTC No. 16111608

>>16111538
>nuke implosion pressure: 6.4×10^15 Pa
>neutron star's core pressure: 1.6×10^34 Pa, neutron degeneracy pressure 10^28 Pa
>sun center pressure: 10^15 Pa
You're just need 13 orders of magnitude more pressure. That's the difference between a nuke and a hand grenade but compared to the most powerful device known.

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 16:09:50 UTC No. 16112178

>>16111608

>>16111538 just said "nuclear weapons", not "a nuclear weapon"

you can't just look at a single device, you have to consider using nuclear devices as compression stages themselves akin to an implosion device - most device designs are not made to focus the blast or compress anything besides a pit, using conventional explosives, and the secondary, using a relatively poorly confined fission detonation.

for example, the pressures achieved by a Teller-Ulam device won't compare to a design using multiple Teller-Ulam devices surrounding a dense core and timed to explode simultaneously. even undirected, the pressure of the inward traveling shockwave of such a device would increase as it approached the center of the dense core in a shrinking, roughly spherical shape.

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 16:32:20 UTC No. 16112197

>>16111538
Why hasn't somebody just nuked the planet already

Nobody actually wants to be here

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 16:39:49 UTC No. 16112205

>>16112178
The 6.4×10^15 Pa is the radiation ablative pressure for the second stage of the W80 according to wiki. Just a reference.

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 18:40:07 UTC No. 16112352

>>16112205
unfortunately it's not really a useful value for the design geometry i proposed. it does mean there's no neutronium in the secondary of a thermonuclear device, though.

to roughly estimate the peak pressure using thermonuclear devices to implode a "compression pit", you need to know the pressure at a roughly circular cross-section of the thermonuclear explosion at the distance the device is from the "pit" during detonation. total pressure moving inwards would be a sum of those cross-sections of each device surrounding the thing you want to compress, and max pressure would be achieved near the center (and increase as the shockwave approaches it). you'd need to model the inward progression of pressure, and the relevant cross section of each thermonuclear device's explosion increases up to a hard limit at 180 degrees as the number of thermonuclear devices in the "shell" surrounding your "pit" increases.

in this design, less than half of the total explosion energy would be directed inwards towards the pit, but a substantial portion of it would be. all of these processes happen at such speeds that even the ablation of the "pit" would only come after the shockwave has moved through (and it will almost certainly be supersonic, precluding thermal rebound being much of a damper), though it would also provide inward pressure.

of course, there's also nuclear shaped charges to consider.

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 19:23:43 UTC No. 16112389

>>16112197
>Nobody actually wants to be here
I like it here

Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 23:40:49 UTC No. 16112762

I saw some dude crushing shit with a diamond press on youtube who I bet could get there.