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G'day BRR, I guess people see me in the same vein as when I suggested that the stacked round technology would lend itself very nicely in a BFMG, or when I said the tech could possibly be used in a Rail Gun, I don't really care, but here is my reasoning behind my thoughts on the possible use of electronically fired stacked roun or stacked propellant technology in a nuclear weapon as the trigger!

The Legacy of E = mc2
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What hasn't Einstein's equation touched in our world?
It's difficult to separate the enormous legacy of E = mc2 from Einstein's legacy as a whole. After all, the equation grew directly out of Einstein's work on special relativity, which is a subset of what most consider his greatest achievement, the theory of general relativity. But I'm going to give it a try nevertheless. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/legacy.html

A nuclear world
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Einstein's equation also perfectly describes what's happening when we produce nuclear energy. As Arlin Crotts, a professor of astronomy at Columbia University, puts it, "our entire understanding of nuclear processes would be sort of lost without it." Fission reactors in nuclear power plants generate electricity by unlocking the energy tied up in fissionable materials. Fusion also furnishes energy from mass just as the equation posits. When two hydrogen atoms fuse to form a helium atom, the mass of the resulting helium is less than the two hydrogens, with the missing mass manifesting itself as fusion energy. Nuclear weapons, too, operate on the principle defined by the equation. Indeed, the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb explosion is E = mc2 made visible.

Why, then, do you have to square the speed of light? It has to do with the nature of energy. When something is moving four times as fast as something else, it doesn't have four times the energy but rather 16 times the energy
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My thinking!
This is the part the interests me, if you look at this, A joule is a kilogram meter squared per second squared, and the way you remember that is E = mc2
This is where they say that if you double the velocity you quadruple the kinetic impact? I am told it is slightly different than that when talking about velocities in weapons, but for the sake of the argument it will suffice!
When the first fission weapons were developed ( the A Bomb) they used the Gun method, that is, they slammed two enriched uranium pieces together at a great speed by firing them at each other with a type of gun, this is where I believe mach 5/50 tech may come into play? because they can effectively double the velocity of those two uranium pieces, which would result in a kinetic impact up to or slightly more than four times more than what has been available up until the advent of electronically fired stacked round/propellant technology, I believe that would have to have some sort of impact on the resultant yield, it could mean that you need less uranium perhaps, or a uranium that doesnt need as much enrichment, or it may just mean the the yield is larger? I really dont know, but I am willing to bet it would have some sort of material impact on the final result in some way?
Would it not follow that if you changed one value in the formula then that would have to impact on the final result? lets say we changed the kilogram metere squared value, what if we doubled the meter value then surely it must follow that the dynamics are changed?
Even in a Thermonuclear weapon used today from my understanding? it still requires a fission trigger to start the process, so if a more efficient trigger is possibly available with metalstorm tech? then that in itself is pretty scary stuff!
You cant tell me that the US hasnt thought of this, because it is so obvious!
I believe this may have in some way been the reason why the US is so concerned that the technology may proliferate and why anything resembling the tech hasnt surfaced