There is something beautiful and chilling about these diagrams by Von Neumann on the reflection of the blast wave.pic.twitter.com/CozRreAG8Z
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@wellerstein This is for a radiation blast wave?
@AstuteDoofus Blast pressure from a nuclear detonation, as it reflects off the ground and interacts with itself:http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/12/06/trouble-airbursts/ …
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@wellerstein Ah, sorry. The "fusion" threw me off -
@AstuteDoofus Yeah, he just means the merging of the direct and reflected waves. Not nuclear.
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