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Dr. Schund, we wish to send an enemy on a voyage with no return ticket. How do we do that?
Regard a point in space and its chemical analogy, the carbon atom in methane. Extend the point perpendicularly to form a line, and extend methane to the pair of carbon atoms in acetylene. Extend the line perpendicularly to form a plane, and extend acetylene to the square of carbon atoms in cyclobutadiene. Extend the plane perpendicularly to form a volume, and extend cyclobutadiene to the cube of carbon atoms in cubane.
We have run out of spatial dimensions for our next extension and must settle for a 3-space projection of our construct. Think how a cube is projected (drawn) onto two dimensional paper. Expand all six faces of the cube outward to form a cube within a cube, the inner one suspended by its eight vertices from the inner eight vertices of the outer one. This is a model of a projection of a 4-space hypercube, a tesseract, in 3-space.
Seize a cubane molecule and similarly build a carbon cube about it. Use linear alkyne spacers at the edges of the outer cube to allow for greater distances. Connect inner and outer vertices through another eight alkyne spacers using admittedly energetic and reactive, but not forbidden or unstable p-p sigma bonds. (Remember [1,1,1,0]tricyclopentane, the infamous [1,1,1]propellane). We now have a molecular tesseract projection in carbon whose crystals fill 3-space. Given a molecular weight (56 carbons) of 672.62, a pound of crystals will encompass about four times ten to the twenty third power carbon tesseract projections.
Make a solid, dense sphere of the stuff by isostatic compression. Surround that sphere with a rigid but low density spherical shell foam spacer and then a very dense spherical shell implosion blanket, perhaps depleted uranium, outside that. Surround our now multi-layered ball with a spherical shell of military grade HMX-based high explosive and that in turn with an icosahedral tesselation of explosive lens detonators. Had we started with a thick-walled hollow plutonium-239 sphere the size of an orange we would have a 70 kiloton A-bomb. Having in fact started with molecular projections of 4-space, we are proud possessors of a dimensional implosion bomb.
Synchronously pop the detonators. Diverging spherical shockwaves are bent inward and everted by their respective explosive lenses to coalesce into a collapsing four pi steradian detonation wave. This envelopment implodes through the second high explosive layer at speeds near 29,800 feet/second, loosing a compressive shock wave of exponential magnitude, outrageous velocity and energy density dramatically exceeding that of the bonds between atoms. Traveling inward it impacts the massive implosion tamper and rebounds, double tapping a ton of uranium, accelerating it across the foamed void to beyond orbital velocities, condensing the whole mass into a hot, hyperdense plasma putty and then... it all cleanly converges toward a single point to squeeze four million billion billion molecular exercises in hyperspatial projective geometry within a cosmic embrace.
The symmetry of the implosion process collapses the molecular lattice toward distances where the substance of reality begins to show its grain. Like a large nail driven into the butt end of a wooden 2x4, splitting it along its weak axis, our near infinitely repeated tesseract molecular projection will suddenly have the freedom to dissipate its furious energies by relaxing and unfolding. Four million billion billion quantum hypercubes will resonantly amplify the stimulated emission of 4-space. This is technically known as "clobbering time."
The fabric of all Creation will pop its threads as a new sort of hole appears. It will be empty in a direction not heretofore glimpsed except in an insane mathematician's most violent hallucinations. It will be hungry.
Quantum mechanics stipulates that energy and time are conjugate variables. The product of their uncertainties must exceed a small but finite number, Planck's Constant divided by 4pi. A vacuum truly empty of matter and radiation is a maelstrom of virtual mass and energy over the period of observation. What is virtual and probabilistic becomes real and observed by swallowing energy. When our four dimensional hole appears it will follow its meager birthing gasp with a mighty quantum inhalation.
The question remains whether "clobbering time" will be a local phenomenon perhaps limited to swallowing the sun and its planets, or whether pulling the 4-space plug will drain the entirety of 3- space. Dr. Schund says "Give it a try!" He is impatient to see whether the whole of Creation will dissipate with a clockwise or counterclockwise swirl.
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