[TheForge] Re: Test mail

[Bruce Freeman]

I said, with a HAMMER.  If you can compress atoms with a hammer, even if "not easily", you ought to let the cold fusion boys know about it.  Might get a grant for a few hundred thou...

>>> jbin at well.com 11/11/2005 1:50:43 PM >>>

On Nov 11, 2005, at 5:10 AM, Bruce Freeman wrote:
>
> However, I AM a chemist and have taken the usual courses in  
> physics.  NO WAY you can compress atoms or even metal grains (tiny  
> crystals within a solid metal) with a hammer.


Well not easily, and when you do you get a rather large explosion. A  
small fission weapon is used to overcome the force that holds the  
hydrogen atoms apart in a fusion weapon. Compresses Atoms> Fusion > Bang


James Binnion
jbin at well.com 



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