Freeman Dyson, the eminent British-American physicist and mathematician best known for his theoretical work in quantum electrodynamics, has died, aged 96.
He came up with the idea of dyson sphere, which often appears in science fiction. Building a shell around a star to capture all the energy a star emits.
He was involved in project orion, a rocket powered by nuclear bombs...
After project orion he became president of the anti-nuclear-proliferation Federation of American Scientists. He proposed the ‘no first use’ policy on nuclear weapons.
My guess is that project orion helped to create the small nuclear warheads found in modern nuclear missiles. For project orion to work the nuclear bombs needed to be small, modern nuclear weapons contain multiple nuclear bombs, what's known as MIRV, multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle. The idea of MIRV was to make it extremely difficult to stop a nuclear weapon using an anti-ballistic missile system.
If you're interested in project orion, hunt around on youtube for 'To Mars By A Bomb' a bbc documentary.
He came up with the idea of dyson sphere, which often appears in science fiction. Building a shell around a star to capture all the energy a star emits.
He was involved in project orion, a rocket powered by nuclear bombs...
After project orion he became president of the anti-nuclear-proliferation Federation of American Scientists. He proposed the ‘no first use’ policy on nuclear weapons.
My guess is that project orion helped to create the small nuclear warheads found in modern nuclear missiles. For project orion to work the nuclear bombs needed to be small, modern nuclear weapons contain multiple nuclear bombs, what's known as MIRV, multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle. The idea of MIRV was to make it extremely difficult to stop a nuclear weapon using an anti-ballistic missile system.
If you're interested in project orion, hunt around on youtube for 'To Mars By A Bomb' a bbc documentary.
