[calenel]

Your example has nothing to do with a plutonium fission reaction. So it uses a spherical implosion. Their so-called 'perfect spheres' are not perfect, they are merely close enough. But you go on believing what you want. Until you post something that actually relates to the question (an improvised nuclear device - look that one up) I am not going to bother with your nonsense. You claim I don't know what I am talking about, yet you have failed to refute my arguments, simply returning to plant your boilerplate propaganda on any thread that relates to this in order to disrupt the discussion.

If the best you can do is to provide a specific example (Purdue experiments) unrelated to the question (plutonium fission) in order to bolster a general case argument (spheres must be 'perfect') against the original specific case (plutonium fission) then you clearly have no basis for your position. Try proving your point, not repeating the big lie, Herr Goebbels.

[Southack]

"So it uses a spherical implosion. Their so-called 'perfect spheres' are not perfect, they are merely close enough." - calenel

No. The document clearly says "perfect."

Here's the public example that I gave that *specifically* refutes your uninformed claim that implosions don't have to be perfect, only "close enough" to create an atomic reaction. In fact, the implosions have to be PERFECT:

Purdue findings support earlier nuclear fusion experiments

Jul 13 ,Physics

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Researchers at Purdue University have new evidence supporting earlier findings by other scientists who designed an inexpensive "tabletop" device that uses sound waves to produce nuclear fusion reactions.

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In the Purdue research, however, the liquid was "seeded" with neutrons before it was bombarded with sound waves. Some of the bubbles created in the process were perfectly spherical, and they imploded with greater force than irregular bubbles. The research yielded evidence that only spherical bubbles implode with a force great enough to cause deuterium atoms to fuse together, similar to the way in which hydrogen atoms fuse in stars to create the thermonuclear furnaces that make stars shine.
http://pda.physorg.com/lofinews5130.html

[Southack]

"you have failed to refute my arguments" - calenel

That's incorrect, probably because you simply don't know enough about nuclear physics to comprehend that you've been debunked already in posts #105 and #106 on this thread, for instance.

But the text is still there. Still on this thread. Still in those posts...so if you ever do learn enough about nuclear phsyics to comprehend what I said, then you'll have your answer.