Evaporative cooling could lead to a nuclear explosion. Imagine uraneous ore, dissolved in a fluid medium, surrounded by a potential barrier, and heated. Non-uranium particles escape first, followed by lighter isotopes. The end result would be a tight concentration of the heaviest available isotope: critical mass.
As it approached critical, it would generate heat. There would be an equilibrium. In this case, the group itself becomes super stable—but its ideas become unhinged.
I really can’t think of any comparable system, except condensation.
Evaporative cooling could lead to a nuclear explosion. Imagine uraneous ore, dissolved in a fluid medium, surrounded by a potential barrier, and heated. Non-uranium particles escape first, followed by lighter isotopes. The end result would be a tight concentration of the heaviest available isotope: critical mass.
As it approached critical, it would generate heat. There would be an equilibrium. In this case, the group itself becomes super stable—but its ideas become unhinged.
I really can’t think of any comparable system, except condensation.
An almost identical system actually happened in nature.