it’s not a twenty year old paper, it’s a twenty two year old preprint which has all the reliability of a blog post. in 22 years, you can get born, complete all education bachelors degree, start masters degree and write a real paper that would be accepted in a real physics journal. the reason it’s not accepted for all these years is it is packed full of crackpot nonsense. it cites Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons ffs
The paper you linked says “1 microgram is sufficient to trigger one thermonuclear weapon” which corresponds to 6×10^17.
This makes your “few thousand” of by 14 orders of magnitude instead of 15, I bet you feel vindicated now.
For example, a device the size of a hand grenade with tons of TNT equivalent output
You’re getting the microgram statement from here. You miss the point. A millionth of a gram is feasible to make and contain right now. It was predicted by 2010 in the paper using CERN, and there are much better facilities producing since then.
You’re missing the point to be pedantic over a 20 year old paper. Newer approaches reduce the antimatter requirements for such weapons even more.
This might make you wonder why antimatter is being transported around. The fact is, proposals to weaponize antimatter as a fusion trigger have been around for over 40 years, and the means to achieving that from a production and engineering standpoint seem a good bet to be available today.
Yes, but if you take the train or a private car you won’t be searched. To get it across international borders try smuggling among other cargo or by submarine, maybe even diplomatic courier.
A few thousand antimatter charged particles could be used as an implosive trigger for a fusion bomb.
In conjunction with you know a fusion bomb so in and of itself not something I’d be concerned about.
It’s like saying that a spark could be used to blow up a mountain, yeah it could, in conjunction with several hundred kilogrammes of C4.
you’re off by something like 15-18 orders of magnitude
This is old, but you get the idea. See section 3.5.
https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510071
it’s not a twenty year old paper, it’s a twenty two year old preprint which has all the reliability of a blog post. in 22 years, you can get born, complete all education bachelors degree, start masters degree and write a real paper that would be accepted in a real physics journal. the reason it’s not accepted for all these years is it is packed full of crackpot nonsense. it cites Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons ffs
The paper you linked says “1 microgram is sufficient to trigger one thermonuclear weapon” which corresponds to 6×10^17.
This makes your “few thousand” of by 14 orders of magnitude instead of 15, I bet you feel vindicated now.
A [man portable nuke[(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W54) has existed since the 60’s so it wouldn’t be a game changer.
LMAO, the little baby down voted you.
You’re getting the microgram statement from here. You miss the point. A millionth of a gram is feasible to make and contain right now. It was predicted by 2010 in the paper using CERN, and there are much better facilities producing since then.
You’re missing the point to be pedantic over a 20 year old paper. Newer approaches reduce the antimatter requirements for such weapons even more.
This might make you wonder why antimatter is being transported around. The fact is, proposals to weaponize antimatter as a fusion trigger have been around for over 40 years, and the means to achieving that from a production and engineering standpoint seem a good bet to be available today.
I think even the TSA could tell that’s a bomb.
Yes, but if you take the train or a private car you won’t be searched. To get it across international borders try smuggling among other cargo or by submarine, maybe even diplomatic courier.
Sure. I just thought it was funny that it looks like the suitcase a cartoon character would put a warhead in.