Dreamer Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 What will happen if 100,000 US chemists will declare a war on the 10.000 US Physicists? *Literally*?
JaKiri Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 Dreamer said in post #1 :What will happen if 100,000 US chemists will declare a war on the 10.000 US Physicists? *Literally*? Literally? Bugger all probably. King's College Cambridge is technically a bingo hall now.
Radical Edward Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 whoever got the coffee machines first would win. 1
YT2095 Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 my bet would be with the chemists (but then again, I`m a little Biased). since everything the Physics lads use are composed of chemicals the YT Bigs It UP for the Chemists! YAY!!!!! ) (and I totaly ignored the fact that it`s a pretty pointless question, aren`t I good! )
JaKiri Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 YT2095 said in post #4 :my bet would be with the chemists (but then again, I`m a little Biased). since everything the Physics lads use are composed of chemicals the YT Bigs It UP for the Chemists! YAY!!!!! ) (and I totaly ignored the fact that it`s a pretty pointless question, aren`t I good! ) If we look at it that way, the chemists wouldn't do too well without any physical laws. They'd all float off into space as an expanding cloud of elementary particles.
LuTze Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 The Physicists make themselves a nice implosion nuke, and Chemists bring along a truckload of VX. It just comes down to who can throw the furthest
JaKiri Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 LuTze said in post #7 :The Physicists make themselves a nice implosion nuke, and Chemists bring along a truckload of VX. It just comes down to who can throw the furthest Who cares about throwing? One rail gun should suffice. You can power it with a nuclear reactor, while the chemists will still be using coal.
YT2095 Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 "If we look at it that way, the chemists wouldn't do too well without any physical laws. They'd all float off into space as an expanding cloud of elementary particles. " I agree totaly, as the 2 go hand in hand, BUT,,, I did state from the outset that I was somewhat Biased YT2095 pays the Cheerleaders, Go to it Girls! Go Chemists! Go Chemists! Go Chemists! RA RA RA
LuTze Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 I'm sure they'd be able to manage some sort of solid rocket fuel...
YT2095 Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 Lutze, I`m with ya 100% here PETN has a DV of over 9 kms/sec like to see a rail gun reach those velocities!
JaKiri Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 LuTze said in post #10 :I'm sure they'd be able to manage some sort of solid rocket fuel... It wouldn't be very efficient, because they'd only be able to develop better kinds of fuel, rather than better kinds of engine.
Sayonara Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 They'd only develop better fuels if they survived the first round, which is assuming the rail gun didn't score a bullseye on their engine while they were trying to make it start.
LuTze Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 MrL_JaKiri said in post #12 :It wouldn't be very efficient, because they'd only be able to develop better kinds of fuel, rather than better kinds of engine. It'd do the job though - and do it while you're still building you're giant rail gun, commisioning nuclear reactors, getting permits, dealing with protestors and so on
JaKiri Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 YT2095 said in post #11 :Lutze, I`m with ya 100% here PETN has a DV of over 9 kms/sec like to see a rail gun reach those velocities! Rail gun slugs can (in theoretical weapons designs) reach nearly 300,000km/s duder.
JaKiri Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 LuTze said in post #14 :It'd do the job though - and do it while you're still building you're giant rail gun, commisioning nuclear reactors, getting permits, dealing with protestors and so on Up until then there's always good old fashioned nuclear deterrent.
LuTze Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 MrL_JaKiri said in post #15 :Rail gun slugs can (in theoretical weapons designs) reach nearly 300,000km/s duder. That is gonna need some meaty power! Best commision another reactor...
JaKiri Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 LuTze said in post #17 : That is gonna need some meaty power! Best commision another reactor... Depends how large the slug is. I would work it out if I had some paper (Go go gadget SPEC REL!)
YT2095 Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 300,000 kms/sec (light speed in other words LOL, I don`t think so
JaKiri Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 I was working it out, but the envelope I was working on (my only source of paper) has run out of space.
blike Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 http://home.insightbb.com/~jmengel4/rail/rail-intro.html
JaKiri Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 Hold on, why am I reading my texts on magnetic/electric fields, spec rel and the like for something so worthless?
JaKiri Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 blike said in post # :http://home.insightbb.com/~jmengel4/rail/rail-intro.html That tends to be a railgun similar to the one the cambridge engineering department have on open days; it deals with solid projectiles of magnetic elements, rather than clumps of charged particles. It also isn't very long (6m for a particle accelerator is nothing). etc etc etc.
YT2095 Posted January 13, 2004 Posted January 13, 2004 screw that, the last time I ran a rail gun, I wiped out 3 monitors (one blew a week and 2 days later). and the capacitor that ruptured took out the side of my favorite workbench (solid Oak, circa 1956). so I`m non to pleased with doing that again!
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