Re: Not always joking, it seems

"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> Tim McDaniel <tmcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> For something to be a mirror, it must be opaque, and it must be
>>> smooth on the scale of whatever it's reflecting.  ... To neutrons,
>>> nothing is smooth, as solid matter consists of empty space with
>>> occasional small lumps.
>
>> How about neutronium as a neutron mirror?
>
> That might work.  I'm not sure if it's smooth enough, or whether
> it reflects neutrons or just absorbs them.  There are a few minor
> problems with it, however:
>
> * It's rather dense, something on the order of a hundred million tons
>  per cubic centimeter.  This might make it just a little difficult
>  to manufacture, trans****t, and install.
>
> * It's only stable under immense pressures, far greater than in the
>  center of the Earth, or even than in the center of the sun.  Without
>  such pressure, it instantly explodes, yielding many trillions of
>  megatons of explosive force per cubic centimeter -- nuclear fission
>  on a very large scale.  And it's a particularly toxic explosion,
>  with a tremendous amount of neutron-rich radioactive fallout.
>
> * Nobody has any idea how to make any.

I have an idea.
1: Take some matter.
2: Squeeze it really tightly.

Karl Johanson