To relate this ever so slightly to fusion -
This is almost as accurate as you'd need to collide two bullets midair, or hit a bullet at around 1/3 mile. (I do have two guns with the requisite accuracy, FWIW - better than this one, so far)
In terms of that "fly in a cathedral" that's 100% fusion probability if you can do it with D ions....
If we can do it with a rifle, with all the variables we have there that you don't have with atomic nuclei - you're kinda there, except being able to do a LOT of it quickly enough to make meaningful power.
Given that it should be a lot easier with nuclei than with bullets, it's kind of embarrassing that we're not there yet.
I did run the math (open of course to someone who can do it better) - and if we were for example firing protons at lithium - and could do it this well - we'd be "there" now. Heisenberg doesn't limit this, we don't need to push that limit to be good enough.
So in a way, this is all related, and encouraging. I think we can get rid of wind, and most barrel vibrations, as well as charge variations, with atoms...
- Bullets hitting other ones in the backstop and driving them out the backside...I need a new stump. Bullet fusion!
Posting as just me, not as the forum owner. Everything I say is "in my opinion" and YMMV -- which should go for everyone without saying.
