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  • Chernobyl and nuclear resonance.

    Yes, well that would explain the fact that the moderator was unable to stop this resonance phenomenon leading to a phase change or a hyper elevated QM state. As a side question, how much (percentage wise) does nuclear fuel enrich itself during a atomic explosion, respectively being a thermonuclear explosion and a atomic one? I still think that the physics of LENR doesn't really seem to apply here. Please correct me if wrong.


    Looking forward to more info on the topic.


    Regards.

  • Chernobyl and nuclear resonance.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14901



    Observation of the reversed Cherenkov radiation

    Abstract

    Reversed Cherenkov radiation is the exotic electromagnetic radiation that is emitted in the opposite direction of moving charged particles in a left-handed material. Reversed Cherenkov radiation has not previously been observed, mainly due to the absence of both suitable all-metal left-handed materials for beam transport and suitable couplers for extracting the reversed Cherenkov radiation signal. In this paper, we develop an all-metal metamaterial, consisting of a square waveguide loaded with complementary electric split ring resonators. We demonstrate that this metamaterial exhibits a left-handed behaviour, and we directly observe the Cherenkov radiation emitted predominantly near the opposite direction to the movement of a single sheet electron beam bunch in the experiment. These observations confirm the reversed behaviour of Cherenkov radiation. The reversed Cherenkov radiation has many possible applications, such as novel vacuum electronic devices, particle detectors, accelerators and new types of plasmonic couplers.

  • Chernobyl and nuclear resonance.

    Yes, I also think that monopoles formed through this unknown yet phenomenon of nuclear resonance.


    If any of what you say is true, the implications for absurdly cheap and miniaturized nuclear reactors are mind blowing...

  • Chernobyl and nuclear resonance.

    I have been analyzing the issue of Chernobyl for the past several years. Russians have not found an adequate explanation for this tragic event to the nuclear industry. Every nation was horrified when it occurred due to public outcry about nuclear power and it's distancing from practical applications in the public sphere. I have even read rumors, at the time, that the Soviet Union had no adequate explanation and thought Chernobyl was sabotaged.


    Here I present a hypothesis as to what may have happened.


    The conclusion I keep on arriving at is that when the moderators got lowered in an already critical state of the reactor, that some kind of negative neutron influx occurred due to the composition of the moderators. If this happened, this doesn't quite explain the uniform explosion of the top parts of the fuel rods in the reactor. What I hypothesize is going to sound outlandish; but, to the best of my knowledge a resonance occurred within the nuclear fuel rods. Supposedly an electromagnetic field formed due to this resonance. I can only extrapolate that the fuel rods might have self-enriched for a brief while, which may or may not be explained by analysis of the debris of the explosion.


    I have even gone as far as surmised that time might have ticked a little faster for a brief moment leading to the explosion.


    Now, the implications are really vast for such a physical phenomenon, ranging from nuclear reactors that can be directly used to generate electricity, to multistage nuclear bombs. I hope someone can look past this far-fetched hypothesis, and consider that nuclear self-enrichment from a resonance is actually possible.


    Thanks.

  • Future of the Economy

    Quote from LeBob

    Fiat currencies and an economy that heavily hinges on debt, increasing inequality and constant inflation is the problem. If I had to choose between a cheap energy source with raw materials accessible on all land masses independantly, hundreds to thousands of times denser than fossil fuels or putting more bandaides on the status quo... I'd say let it go through the metamorphosis.

    Yet, the outcome is undesirable. So, as per prudent common sense the technology (as it seems to be) should be transitioned towards instead of a revolution. Every nation realizes this, I suppose.

  • Halting nuclear warfare.

    This idea may be rational; but, its implementation itself is irrational if that makes any sense; but, since Mutually Assured Destruction is essentially a suicide pact, so I digress.


    I already sent this to xrisk and CSER but I believe that it needs to be known on a larger scale. I spent a month fixated and analyzing this idea just to make sure it's full-proof, which nearly drove me insane.


    Essentially the following idea prevents a first-strike policy from ever occurring due to the absolute manner of the deterrent. Furthermore, it solves in an elegant manner the problem of Mutually Assured Destruction, and the irrational and highly dangerous issue of brinkmanship among nations.

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    I have discovered a dangerous idea that may tip the balance of power too much. My greatest hope is that this idea never becomes realized, yet, even if it does it would maintain a balance of power between nations.

    It has come to my attention that a nuclear silo that is 1 mile or less deep or an impenetrable deep underwater nuclear silo, would be undetectable and impenetrable along with being secret from even the parties building it.


    Such an idea would guarantee a balance of power between nations and even guaranteed Mutually Assured Destruction if that is what all parties desire.

    I sincerely hope this can be discussed among officials as to never, in a deterministic (game theory is essentially deterministic) and non-recoverable manner, be implemented.

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    Thank you.

  • Future of the Economy

    Quote from Rob Woudenberg

    The question is whether much cheaper energy will lead to significant deflation.

    Most of my energy bills revenues go to government taxes.

    This is a problem economically that green energy faces, and limits the amount of tax and municipal incentives for renewable energy.


    It's an inverted tragedy of the commons problem for the government, as long as revenue and profit is some categorical imperative.

  • Future of the Economy

    Quote from sam12

    Promethium


    Can you comment on this article?


    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0…coronavirus-stimulus.html


    Fractional lending on steroids? Seems that they're taking this idea to extreme, due to today's unmentioned 2.3 Trillion in loans .


    https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09…-states-cities/index.html


    It's really reckless and dumb and will create a huge bubble after the pandemic is over. However, this is the only way to prop up a fiat system. Money essentially has to continue being created to lessen the debit load. Imagine the greenback not being the world currency after this version of Quantitative Easing (which doesn't work that well). Banks can't be forced to lend money, so there will be humongous reserves, that even the FED, with it's monetary policy of inflation targeting wouldn't want to allow...


    Just read this part:

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    It is worth noting that this setup will not necessarily pump $3.5 trillion of monopoly money into the economy permanently.



    When it makes a loan, the Fed temporarily sends fresh dollars out into the financial system. But that loan must be paid back with interest, sucking the funds back out. When the Fed buys bonds using its emergency powers, it takes an asset out of the system in exchange for central bank cash.

    “When it comes due, cash essentially has to be taken out of the private banking system and given back to the Fed,” said Matthew Luzzetti, chief United States economist at Deutsche Bank.

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  • Future of the Economy

    Quote from Alan Smith

    it seems that we have arrived at 'late stage' capitalism when the capitalists thought it has barely begun, and it's essential narcissism will be exposed more and more over the rest of this decade. I fear trouble ahead.

    Glad I'm not the only one. It took me a while to foresee this type of scenario.


    What I expect, in the best case scenario, is going to sound quite Utopian; but, since the onerous issue of economic scarcity will be dealt with in the most efficient manner by some Generalized Artificial Intelligence entity, then we will have crime, medicine, and, yes, even the problem of death dealt with.


    Some people might sense some undertones of some kind of communist or socialist affinity hereabouts; but, either way the poor will benefit the most from deflation arising due to the above issue. And, besides, it will take many generations still to level the playing field around the world.


    It's perplexing.

  • Future of the Economy

    Quote from JedRothwell

    I do not understand why you think rich people dislike inflation. On the contrary, it makes their money worth more. In the 19th century they supported deflationary monetary policy.

    You might have misunderstood. I specifically mention "deflation," not "inflation".


    As to why they would dislike "deflation" is due to debit becoming more burdensome, along with the notion that purchasing power increases for all other rational agents operating in the economy.

  • Future of the Economy

    I'd like to start a thread about some serious issues that the economy is going to face due to LENR and other revolutionary technologies.


    As a trained economist I understand the deflationary tendencies of revolutionary technology. In the near future we will likely face a combination of two economically earthshaking technologies. The first will be abundant and cheap energy, through LENR and Solar. The second will be the advent of Generalized Artificial Intelligence. Both of these technologies will undoubtedly create a recipe of strong deflationary tendencies within the economy of the world.


    As far as my noetic faculties can reach, this will lead to something fiat economies are most endangered by. Namely, deflation. Mind you, even a small percentage of deflation will cause the super-rich to lose their minds.


    Keynesian economics will most likely be on steroids due to this, and will be ineffective no matter how much money gets injected into the economy.


    Is there anyway to prepare for this eventuality? I don't mean to ferment fear or scare anyone, so I'm sorry if anyone feels uncomfortable due to this sentiment about the future of economics.

  • Brillouin Energy Corporation (BEC) updates.

    Puzzling that they can't reach a higher COP. I suppose it is a uniform and non-specific way to elicit lattice changes through CECR. If they could localize or focus the input into a smaller surface area, they would likely get higher COP's. But, then scalability kind of flies out the window in my view.

  • Rossi: The final chapter

    Rossi a scammer? His actions might point to such a conclusion; but, not the science.


    In the past, the two we're conflated, and thankfully now it is no longer the case.


    Let's be thankful, that we have other people who rehabilitated the field from the incompetence of a presentation that came off as a farce.