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In article <1992Nov5.033917.19220@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Lupo the Butcher) writes:
>Apparently there might be a way of doing this. I read a book on nonlinear
>phyics (for laymen) that spoke of a non-linear wave called an instaton. This
>wave has a field density great enough to rip the fabric of space time, flooding
>the area with particle/antiparticle pairs. 
>
>This may sound fantastic, but it actually happens in Heavy Ion collisions
>(I wrote a paper on this). The difference in the phenomena is that the field
>density of the ion collision is temporary, due to the huge forces pushing the
>ions apart. The instaton would presumably not have this problem.
>
>Agian, you might say that the darn thing could never be, but a professor at my
>college told me that it is quite possible to achieve this type of field density
>using the non-linear optics techniques we have today, that it was probobly done
>and the results would be classified. (High beam intenisty lasers generally are)
>
>Again, you might object on conservation of energy terms, but apparently it is
>not that simple an argument; at high field strengths funny things happen.
>I'll post my report if there is any interest (any if I can get a PC with 
>kermit)
>
>Any optics people out there? 

	While this is in no way, in an area of expertise for me, I might be 
very interested in seeing this. I've been toying with the conception of 
altering the orbits of planetoids or massive meteors. We have the technology 
to do so, if we could find some suitable canidites.
	Basically, we find one in an elliptical orbit, which we could nudge 
into a collision course using nuclear powered thrusters. Ideally, we'll be 
talking in the range of 10 to 50 km in diameter.  Any one in the  Aten, 
Appollo or Amor classes may work. While inable to crack the earth, if we 
have one impact with an appreciable velocity, it could certainly devestate 
the ecoculture of the Earth. Ah, the dreams of an astronomy major :-)