From: PointedEars@web.de   
      
   Paul.B.Andersen wrote:   
   > Den 02.01.2026 16:35, skrev Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:   
   >> Paul.B.Andersen wrote:   
   >>> Den 02.01.2026 01:04, skrev Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:   
   >>>> Paul.B.Andersen wrote:   
   >>>>> There is no way the atom bomb could be invented from the equation E =   
   mc².   
   >>>> That is not true.   
   >>> Yes, it is.   
   >> No, it is not   
   >>   
   >>> According to Google's AI:   
   >>   
   >> LOL.  "Google" is not a source; "Google's AI" is even less than that.   
   >>   
   >>> "Nuclear fission was discovered by German chemists Otto Hahn   
   >>>    and Fritz Strassmann in late 1938, who observed uranium nuclei   
   >>>    splitting into lighter elements like barium when bombarded with   
   >>>    neutrons, with physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch providing   
   >>>    the theoretical explanation and coining the term "fission"   
   >>>    shortly after, revealing the massive energy release. Hahn   
   >>>    received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery,   
   >>>    though Meitner's crucial role in understanding the process is   
   >>>    now widely recognized.   
   >>>   
   >>> Fermi was the first who, in 1934, bombarded uranium atoms with   
   >>> neutrons and observed that strange things happened, but he didn't   
   >>> understand that the uranium atom was split.   
   >   
   > These are facts you cannot laugh away.   
      
   These _claims_, if true, are irrelevant to your claim as by then the   
   equivalence of rest energy and mass was already known.   
      
   >>> The point is that the fission was not discovered because   
   >>> someone thought that since E = mc², it must be possible   
   >>> to release energy by splitting atom.   
   >>   
   >> Non sequitur.  We were not discussing just nuclear fission, but *the   
   >> creation of an atomic bomb*: an *uncontrolled* nuclear fission reaction,   
   >> possibly induced by nuclear fusion, *designed* to cause destruction.   
   >   
   > So the discovery of nuclear fission and the fact   
   > that ≈ 200 MeV kinetic energy is realised when   
   > a U-235 atom is hit by a neutron and split in two, is   
   > irrelevant to the creation of the fission atomic bomb? :-D   
      
   You appear to be confused about your own argument.  Now you are arguing,   
   *contrary* to what you argued before, that the known mass--energy   
   equivalence did play a role in the creation of the atomic bomb.  Make up   
   your mind.   
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