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... Otherwise, how do such incredible atomic blasts create such enormous releases of energy.
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It all came to me when I read David Bodanis' "E=mc^2" He writes about the reason to be of this equation, a brief history of physics which led to this equation , and the race between Germany and America (in the 30's and 40's) to control the power of the atom.
The early experiments were not conclusive since the neutrons escaping from their nuclei had a difficult time hitting their target: the nuclei of other atoms.
This was resolved by slowing down the neutrons. In this state they were more wobbly, more spread out, therefore hitting their target.
This to me, is exactly what I mean by depleted state of the atom.
This happens at the center of stars, at the center of our planet Earth. The pressure exerted on the atom also means that it is less stable. This is what starts nuclear reactions.
The depleted state of the atom results from gravity.
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sure pressure produces heat therefore atoms become more energetic.
the depleted state of the atom comes more from the cooling of high energy plasma than it does from gravity. for gravity to take hold the atom must decrease its energy, otherwise the energy is to great for gravity to have any influence. if there was NO cooling or lower energy state for plasma, gravity being very weak would have no chance to influence the dynamics of plasma.(remember plasma is electromagnetics,electric currents,heat,electrons,ions etc.).
thats the thing about matter, it is plasma at different stages of energy.
and lower state plasma can in time, become again, a higher energy form of plasma. it is recycled.
we can if you like look at this from the extreme point of view.
lets say that gravity is stronger than high energy plasma, in that case, nothing would happen(galaxies,stars,planets etc.) since plasma would never have the chance to over come gravity and go to a lower energy states(particle) and therefore matter could never become. and we know that matter is high energy plasma(non-particle) in a lower energy state(particle). so therefore assuming gravity does exist it only has influence at low energy states.
so the depletion of the atom has more to do with temp. pressure, velocity and enviroment in which it resides than with gravity.
