Thought experiment: Implosion reaction

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I have question.

If we take an ordernary nuclear bomb and inject anti-matter into the core, and find a way to isolate the matter/antimatter reaction from the rest of detonation.

Would it be possible to use force of the nuclear bomb to generate a black hole and thereby vaporize an entire area (without nuclear fallout being present afterwards)?

In order to isolate the matter/antimatter reaction could this be done by some sort of gride? Maybe of hydrogen is that powefull enough?

/Hummingbird
 
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Hummingbird25 said:
If we take an ordernary nuclear bomb and inject anti-matter into the core, and find a way to isolate the matter/antimatter reaction from the rest of detonation -

Would it be possible to use force of the nuclear bomb to generate a black hole . . . ?
NO! Any anti-matter (~ GeV), fission (~ 200 MeV) or fusion (0.1- ~22 MeV) reaction has an extraordinary low energy level compared to something like a black hole. There have been repeated concerns about the formation of black holes in conjunction with TeV events proposed in the LHC. That isn't going to happen.

Furthermore, one cannot isolate a matter/anti-matter reaction in the core of nuclear weapon, fission or fusion.

I'm locking the thread because this is highly speculative. Furthermore, if an entire area is vaporized - why would one be concerned about fallout? Neutron irradiation is a by-product of nuclear fission and D+T (50% of D+D) fusion. Even if fallout was minimized, one still has activated ground from the neutron irradiation.
 
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