Talk:Femtotechnology

Potentially cranky reference
The reference recently added by seems suspect. After reading through it, I have a few points of concern: Long story short, it's setting off my crackpot index alarms. The fact that the author names the proposed form of matter after himself doesn't help. --Christopher Thomas (talk) 04:38, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * It's written by someone who doesn't seem to be a physicist and who isn't working for a university (the author works at an aerospace firm, according to the publication info).
 * It spends quite a lot of time on relatively elementary background about coulomb and nuclear forces, without actually saying much about how this background information influences their proposals.
 * It makes several rather suspect claims about the nature of the Strong force (modelling it as an anisotropic force between a nucleon and a larger nucleus, picking handwavy numbers for interaction radii, claiming repulsion within a certain distance rather than treating the whole nucleus as a degenerate lump, etc).
 * A couple of statements are made about mathematical analysis of interactions between nuclei and between a nucleus and a nearby nucleon, but there is no description of how these were set up (certainly no detailed presentation of the math used).
 * An "experimental evidence" datapoint is plotted in the simulated graph, but is not discussed in the text. And it's a single data point, being used as justification for a graph showing a detailed relation between parameters.
 * The article spends quite a lot of time discussing how you'd assemble trusses and tubes and so forth out of nuclear matter with the assumed properties, when the real issue a paper of this sort would have to address is proving that stable configurations like that could exist at all.

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