The 1960s Project That Broke Physics
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Project Ripple John Knuckles Lawrence Livermore Laboratory 1962 Pam Leico Ripple 2 Ripple 3 pusherless high gain fusion targets driver pulse shaping John Foster Jr Director Lawrence Radiation Laboratory Harold Brown Edward Teller thermonuclear Teller Ulam device Operation Dominic 1962 layered materials pulse shaping shocks coalescing compressed wave fusion efficiency MH370 single wave tunneling spacetime clean fusion bomb fission ratio neutronic pure energy conversion yield weight ratio lithium chain reaction partial test ban treaty 1963 limited test ban treaty atmospheric outer space underwater 1996 comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty cold war war crime China NIF National Ignition Facility laser driven inertial confinement fusion pure fusion weapons fission trigger neutron radiation effects arms control escalation polarizable vacuum model Salvatore Py Schwinger limit false vacuum true vacuum zero point energy negative energy Matt Visser Eric W. Davis polyhedral configuration spinning wormhole centrifugal motion arbitrarily small quantum computers perfect precision equilateral triangles
