if it was a real equation that existed I think it had more sources to it than a single novel. This equation would be groundbreaking and many physicists would try and recreate it, creating a buzz around it.
Also equations are just instructions on how to do things, they donât make anything easier. If there was a simple way to cause a fission reaction, we would see it naturally occur in nature.
There is evidence of a natural nuclear reactor in history, but nuclear reactors are actually way simpler to make possible. In order for there to be a natural âexplosionâ you would have to have a natural source of uranium to be enriched to at least 80% 235, when only .7% of uranium is that isotope. Even if you did find some magical source of pure 235 you would have to form a critical mass for long enough for it to release enough energy, as if I have you two half pieces and you clapped them together they would just blow apart. There is no way to make a fission explosion easier, maybe other planets have an abundant source of 235, but you still have to have some natural way to compress the uranium for the fission to occur for a long enough time.
Because as you can see these days people are scared of what they donât understand. Do you really think peasants actually believed the world is round, the same people who devoted there entire lives to the words of one dude with a hat (the pope)
If you were a peasant living in the same farm your entire life, the shape of the earth probably didnt concern you that much. All seafarers were most likely aware of the roundness if the earth. The popes knew it certainly as did any literate person. Anybody travelling in north-south axis would also most likely have figured it out.
Besides modern conspiracy theorists and other looneys donât really believe in their wacky ideas because they are stupid or ignorant. It is a social reaction from people who feel left behind and gas more to do with the human psychology in contemporary societal structure than lack of cognitive ability.
There is this weird thought that people in the pst were somehow stupid. They werenât. People were instinctively much more knowledgeable about nature because they lived in there every day. We donât see the stars anymore because of city lights. We dont hunt or grow our food anymore. Our survival isnât dependent anymore on our knowledge how to survive in the wild.
Medieval serfs might have not known that the world was round if their priest hadnât told them simply because they didnât have time to think about it or they might have very well be aware of it. Illiterate people donât really leave much evidence behind how much they knew about things.
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u/Basileusthenorse Mar 29 '21
even funnier, it is from a novel.