re: Forget Covid, Forget the election. shite is about to get real

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They once thought detonating a nuclear weapon would ignite the atmosphere. 

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I'm in the Black Hole>>>Nuclear weapon camp though personally

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You talking weapons use, or overall danger?

I don't know all the physics behind it, but I do know the basic principle is collapsing the distance between subatomic particles, to form an incredibly massive (for it's size) object. There are forces in play that keep these particles spaced out, to overcome those, I'd think we're talking enormous amounts of energy will be in play. We're talking a step beyond fusion, we're talking subatomic collapse.

I guess the concept is, you do a small enough group of particles, you (I suppose) could temporarily "squeeze" them into an artificial singularity, but they'd rebound back to normal when you reach the end of whatever you're doing to collapse them.
You simply don't have the necessary energy to sustain an artificial singularity without the added assistance of gravity (native to real black holes).

If so, the dangers involved might be-
a; if you're slamming and compressing matter, I suppose there might be a risk of fusion. Heck, I would assume the same basic technique would be in play to start a fusion reaction, so that might be the primary purpose of this. But you need to ensure you have a clean environment, you don't want to spark something that could be explosive and breach containment.

b; in playing with this, people better be sure of their math. I'm sure they are, but the error is a doomsday scenario...
basically, you want to stay below the threshold for creating a sustained singularity. At some point, the compressed matter will obtain enough mass to sustain, and I don't think we know any means of reversing THAT. And if you exceed the threshold and make one, it's over.