anyways this thread is simply about me accurately predicting something in my dreams. I have always been intrested by nuclear power, I think that if people wouldn’t be so afraid of it we wouldn’t be so reliant on crude oil. Anyways I understand how a nuclear plant works but never understood how a nuclear bomb works and never got to looking it up. So here is the strange part during a dream recently there was a cutaway image of a nuke right in front of me, it consisted of a empty bomb shell, shaped like a nerf football and a tube running down the middle verticaly. At one end of the tube there was a ball of uranium and at the other a single uranium atom at the other end (I believe I somehow knew they were uranium-238 but this is previous knowledge) with explosive behind it. As the bomb reached the ground the explosives went off and the uranium atom was sent into the ball of uranium starting the destructive chain reaction. When I woke I thought the whole thing strange and looked it up. To my suprise I acurately guessed how the “Little Boy” nuclear bomb worked, which uses a system called gun trigger detonation.
That’s very cool, but it’s not exactly how Little Boy worked. Hehe. The charge at the bottom end of the bomb (which became the top, as it fell tip-first) did in fact propel an amount of u-235 (not 238) down a narrow tube and into another mass of the same material to initiate the fission reaction, but it wasn’t a single atom. In fact, the u-235 projectile actually weighed more than the target, and consisted of nearly 40 kgs of the highly enriched material. Also, the bomb was detonated at almost 2000 feet above the ground, not when it made contact.
Still, it’s quite interesting that your dream included the same “gun-type” mechanism that was used in the real thing. Perhaps you learned about it a while ago and had completely forgotten that information since? Or perhaps you watched part of a documentary when you were too young to remember, and never recalled it up until just now? It’s certainly amazing what dreams are capable of.
no way I never learned about how a nuke worked I swear I didn’t
Anyways the stuff about the single atom and 235 was actually speculation after I had the dream, I remember a white label like thing flying in the air
Also I meant to say as the bomb neared the ground, I remember reading that Little Boy was detonated above the city not on it to increase the blast radius and destructive power of the bomb
Hehe that makes it even more strange, any speculation I added to fill in the blanks after i had the dream was incorrect. Weird
that seams exactly right
the Little boy was designed that exactly that way
part of it is that i think that the mind stores information rather poorly considering the
amount of information we gain, maybe the mind is like a computer in that when you delete something, it never goes away… unfortunately most people fail to notice you can open the recycle bin and RIGHT in front of you their is a restore button. Now, to explain my analogy, once we learn something we rarely TRULY forget it. Out of the blue in LA class today i somehow remembered a history channel show or something like that that said about the Navajo Indians and how they helped make a code in WWII (we where supposed to make inferences about a paragraph about it ), it was like i was reading it right out of a book
if you haven’t recalled something until that moment, then you forgot the action of learning it too, then you would think that you never learned about it but u did.
(that last statement sounded a little like a paradox the way i worded it, if someone can explain it better please do)
I know happens to me all the time, but normally there is some click, or some Eureka! moment when that happens, I cant recall ever learning that, I
guess my only proof is that I have always wondered how a nuke works, ever since I was a little boy I understood how a nuclear power plant works and wondered, well how do you do that in a nuke, a nuclear power plant needs all this special equipment to get a chain reaction going, how do you stuff a power plant in a signifigantly smaller nuke.
