Re: Not always joking, it seems

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:45:56 GMT, "Karl Johanson"
<karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>"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.
>
You are Kal-El, AICMFP.
>