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Mastodon project needs to fix how authentication is handled across user instances. This confuses newbies because they click a link and wind up at a remote server where they’re not authenticated, and don’t even realize it.

This divide is problematic across ActivityPub. Hubzilla and zot fixed that problem years ago.

Atoms repel by electrostatic forces. Essentially, electro-magnetism. The strong nuclear force acts on subatomic particles at distances far shorter.

Nice info but I have given up on Reddit.

You’re getting the microgram statement from here. You miss the point. A millionth of a gram is feasible to make and contain right now. It was predicted by 2010 in the paper using CERN, and there are much better facilities producing since then.

You’re missing the point to be pedantic over a 20 year old paper. Newer approaches reduce the antimatter requirements for such weapons even more.

This might make you wonder why antimatter is being transported around. The fact is, proposals to weaponize antimatter as a fusion trigger have been around for over 40 years, and the means to achieving that from a production and engineering standpoint seem a good bet to be available today.

This is old, but you get the idea. See section 3.5.

https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510071

I’m getting bullshit downvotes from people who clearly won’t read the paper and don’t understand the proposed detonation model. One need not have grams of antimatter to trigger a H-H fusion detonation. A relatively small amount of antimatter is needed to trigger initial fusion of a hydrogen target, which by cascade can be used to detonate additional hydrogen. This removes the fission trigger and allows for very small fusion weapons with relatively low yields. For example, a device the size of a hand grenade with tons of TNT equivalent output - like a truck bomb in your hand. Or a rifle sized X-Ray laser is another proposed weapon.

Read the study. This technology is feasible.

A few thousand antimatter charged particles could be used as an implosive trigger for a fusion bomb.

EDIT Source. See section 3 in general and 3.5 specifically:

https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510071

The most expensive experimental replication of Newton’s 3rd Law yet devised…

Mine, after a Van Halen concert. I’d had ringing in my ears after shows before, but this never quite went away.