by mooninquirer » 31 Mar 2011 05:26
TVOW --- The propaganda was NOT that there was an H-bomb at Bikini Atoll, but nuclear fission bombs exploded. The very first device claimed to be a hydrogen, fusion, or thermonuclear device was in 1952 called "Ivy Mike," and it was said to be 500 times more powerful than the bomb supposedly dropped on Hiroshima.
Don't confuse things. Yes, hydrogen WILL explode in the CHEMICAL sense, when it combines with oxygen, and it forms water. That is why hydrogen has the name it does ---- it refers to hydrogen generating, or giving birth, to water ( hydro = water;; gen = generating ). And this was known hundreds of years ago, and it gives off a very weak explosion in comparison to what is claimed for nuclear explosions. In fact, it is a high school, if not grade school, physical chemistry experiment to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis, and then just explode that hydrogen in the test tube. It just causes a POP that will not break the test tube.
The H-bomb refers to a hypothetical device using the FUSION of the nuclei of isotopes of hydrogen, to produce helium, which will give off an enormous amount of energy. This is how energy is made in the Sun. But, no experiment has ever been done in fusion in which more energy has come out than was put in. Fusion requires an enormous threshold to be crossed, to bring like charges together. In the stars, this is accomplished by the gravity.
All of the claims that fusion was produced in the laboratory in which more energy has come out than has been put in have been shown to be in error. Remember cold fusion by those scientists in Utah, in 1988 ?
Now, nuclear fission does NOT have this "threshold" problem, because bringing like charged nuclei together is not required since a NEUTRON will cause the fissioning. Also, the electron clouds do not have to be stripped. Fusion thus requires and ENORMOUS amount of activation energy, to IONIZE the hydrogen by stripping it of its electron, and by forcing the like charged nuclei together. This is said to be accomplished by the explosion of a fission bomb. But even if you agree that the fission ( uranium or plutonium ) bomb will explode, it seems to me that all that would happen, long before the hydrogen nuclei are squished together, is that they will just be blown away and scattered.
Fissioning is a slow and gradual process, and it will not be the case that all or even a substantial number of the nuclei in fissile matter will undergo fission at once. This is because what we think of solid matter is mostly empty space. If the nucleus of U 235 were the size of a marble, then the whole U 235 atom, with its outer electron clouds, would be the size of Yankee stadium. Because of this extreme sparseness, there is no such thing as the "next nucleus" that fissions, so we are not going to get this escalating chain reaction.
A nuclear reactor is far more basic technology than a nuclear bomb, and since no FUSION reactor has ever been built, that is good indication that fusion or hydrogen bombs are a hoax.
In the Sun, this is not a problem, because the intense gravity and symmetrical shape pushing in around all asides, keeps the nuclei together.