On Jan 22, 10:45 am, il...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Meanwhile the billiard ball's nuclei keep on going, diverging now that
> we have what amount's to 160 grams of fully ionized matter. Electric
> repulsion alone would make it explode with enormous force -- and it
> is, -- but nuclei are flying apart much more slowly than their forward
> momentum, so you can think of them as a spreading cone of incredibly
> dense ionizing radiation.
The charged nuclei beam will attract electrons from the surrounding
matter, partially neutralizing its charge. This allows the attractive
force due to the interaction of the current of charged particles with
itself to create a self-pinching effect, similar to what happens with
other charged particle beams going through matter.
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/chap12.pdf
Luke
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