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Solf J. Kimblee goes nuclear

Okay so @mylieutenant ‘s tag on a pic of Kimblee and a recent conversation with @meiosis2 reminded me that I’ve been meaning to write about this for some time now…

There is a quote from Emilio Gino Segrè, a particle physicist who worked with Enrico Fermi, I wanted to share…

The quote refers to the Trinity test of the atom bomb conducted on July 16th, 1945, where physicists used the Fermi method to estimate the bomb’s yield. Segrè’s description of the sheer power and impact of the bomb, like a detonated supernova, always reminded me in some respects of Kimblee’s alchemy, a devastating force loosed upon the world adept at escaping all means of human control – save that of the alchemist himself.

I’ve long wondered whether Kimblee’s alchemy is quantum-based, a chain-reaction similar to the nuclear fission responsible for the detonation of an atom bomb. Indeed, there are parallels between the bomb’s use by the United States and Kimblee’s Kanda operation in Ishval, in that Amestris believed it had secured the right to use whatever means necessary to defeat their enemy in the war which, Amestris maintained, the latter began. Such means included the use of superior or more powerful weaponry in the form of the State Alchemists, in particular Kimblee’s explosions –– not only to defeat Ishval but to remain able, following the Uprising, to sufficiently to guarantee its own dominance. Kimblee’s alchemy brought the war to a categorical end.

Then what about the Flame Alchemist, Roy Mustang? inspired by discussions regarding the similarities and differences between Roy Mustang’s alchemy and Solf J. KImblee’s, I wanted to conceive of a mechanism behind the latter’s infamous explosions. Taking a moment to establish a basis for comparison: not only can Roy use alchemical hydrolysis to break apart polymers and ignite hydrogen gas (thanks Havoc), his modus operandi is rapid reduction–oxidation, high-temperature exothermic reactions between a reductant (catalysed by the friction of his gloves) and the oxidant (the oxygen in the air), the latter of which is adjusted for volume to control the conflagration. In short, Roy’s alchemy is predominantly concerned with stoichiometry, or the calculation of relative quantities of reactants and products in a reaction rather more so than generating fire out of nothing (Havoc explained this rather well in “Flame versus Fullmetal” from 2003).

Now then, I believe Kimblee’s alchemy has less to do with stoichiometry and rather more to do with nuclear fission. From this analysis’s inception, we must bear in mind that fission is by definition a form of nuclear transmutation, since the products of the reaction are not the same elements as the original atom, predisposing us to considering an atomic origin for Kimblee’s alchemy. Basically, in fission weapons, a mass of fissile material, like uranium or plutonium, is forced to go supercritical, pretty much facilitating an exponential growth of nuclear chain reactions — either by shooting a piece of critical material into another or by compressing the two to many times its original density, called the “implosion” method (see the pic from Hyper Physics). I’m concerned with the latter method.

When Kimblee brings his hands together, he is, in essence, forcing fissile material into close proximity, analogous to the “implosion” method. With the sun symbol (signifying gold) on his right palm and the moon symbol (signifying silver) on his left, and, with his hands are together, two triangles (the left pointing up to represent fire and the right pointing down to represent water), his arrays combine to form a hexagram which initiates a transmutation. By forcing together the contradictory symbols of the sun and moon, gold and silver, water and fire, he is reducing the density of the space between his palms and accelerating the destabilization and decay of the material (i.e., the contradictory elements), creating a chain reaction and subsequent explosion, releasing mass amounts of energy.

^ (what a nice man)

TL;DR —> whereas Roy is more of a chemist, I imagine Kimblee as more of a nuclear physicist. Not only is his alchemy concerned with the basic constructs of matter at the atomic level, the sheer devastation of his transmutations suggests an efficacy comparable to that of a fission weapon.

TL;DR DR —> Ka-blooey

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The Bullet Cluster Proves Dark Matter Exists, But Not For The Reason Most Physicists Think

Recently, a paper came out challenging alternative theories to dark matter and claiming that many of them were invalid. The basis for that argument? That those theories predict different arrival times for gravitational waves and light waves from a neutron star merger, when we saw them arrive practically simultaneously. One of those theories, MOG, claims to survive, but it’s already been discredited for another reason that’s discussed far less frequently: the Bullet Cluster. When the apparent effects of gravitation are well-separated in space from where we see the matter, you require non-locality to save your theory. MOG is a non-local theory of gravity, so you might think everything is fine. But if gravitational effects aren’t where the matter is located, we’d expect to see these non-local effects in clusters that are in a pre-merger state, and those don’t exist.

Can a theory like MOG survive in this context? I don’t believe so. The Bullet Cluster proves dark matter exists, but not for the reason most physicists think!