The North Koreans appear to have an atomic bomb design that does pretty much the same thing which requires them to spread around radioactive isotopes pulled out of their nuclear reactors in some sort of attempt to trick us. Did you realize that they blew up one of these bombs called "the Great Fizzle", and a few months later walked back into the cavern with yet another bomb ~ no one was irradiated!
The Iranians have some sort of atom bomb program going on and the other day they are said to have blown up 20 sq. miles of a military base where they do their atomic research ~ killed their top guy and a bunch of his scientists. They continue to search for bodies ~ and we must presume they are just dead, possibly parboiled, not crispy!
In the mix of news we now find that a research group has confirmed that you can catch virtual particles appearing in "the vacuum", tag a touch of energy to them and lo and behold you get TWO PHOTON SOURCES.
These events may all be of a piece with Wintogreen Mints crunched in front of a mirror in a darkened room, or x-rays emitted by Scotch tape pulled off the roll in a vacuum.
The difference is some are scaled up and some seem to be "controlled" and yet two groups none of us like, Iran and North Korea, may be using the process to make theatre weapons that leave no radioactive residue.
It's certainly a Brave New World ~ and it's coming down fast.
Interesting. How does this differ from the neutron bombs that were talked about in the past. Level a city and re-inhabit it shortly?
Tesla. He was sure that something could travel FTL. But at that time, there were no “particle” physics. So he concerned his thoughts to waves. Toward the very end of his life, he was working on disproving Einstein’s theory that nothing could travel FTL. Now Cern has found neutrinos exceeding FTL. Could get interesting!