From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com>
Subject: Re: Einstein
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:24:11 -0700


Hi Kenneth,

you are right. The earth itself is a 'fission reactor' and it still is
giving off energy as it releases particles and waves of energy. Happily
though the action is mainly happening down in the earth's center and below
the sedimentary covering we are all used to ('Without coverings we are all
naked', Sarah Craig), since up to 75 % of the earth is covered in
sedimentary types of rocks, soil, etc.

If the earth did not have natural fission, then it would likely be a bit
cooler and have less volcanoes, and hot springs, likely. There is no life on
Mars...but perhaps on the moons of Jupiter there is life, but in fact the
only reason we have life on earth is due to the addition of ozone in the
stratosphere and lots of oxygen (highly reductive atmospher is gone) in the
troposphere (that is the one we live in).

well

john



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Johnson" <beeso-AT-pop.charter.net>
To: <heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: Einstein


> >on 19/9/03 2:33 pm, That Pete at that_pete-AT-yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> >>> Happily, E=mc2 was never applied in an explosive device (kind of
> >>>anti-matter
> >>> annihilation). E=mc2 only fueled the power dreams of the engineers who
> >>> already were on such a path.
> >>
> >> The energy released by an atomic bomb is E=mc2; to the difference in
> >> mass of the nuclear materials before and after fission times the square
> >> of the speed of light.
> >
> >Forgive if I'm wrong but I thought the atom bombs exploded over Hiroshima
> >and Nagasaki produced enormous energy from the unchecked chain reaction
> >(otherwise controlled in nuclear power reactors) of uranium nuclei etc,
and
> >had nothing to do with the transformation of matter into energy as in the
> >Einsteinian equation.
> >
> >regards
> >
> >michaelP
>
> wull, a chain reaction, checked or not, is just this, changing matter to
> energy, in which process the matter is mainly used up, eh? in a bomb it's
a
> sudden release of energy, in a power plant it's controlled
>
> or did i miss something??
>
> k
>
>
>
>
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