[AntonioLao]

A general term having the same connotation is the ‘Domino Effect’. This effect will be discussed further in the mathematics forum and it implies an emergence from order to chaos.

We all heard about the terrible effects of radioactivity. Some of us experienced first hand and still suffered physically, emotionally, and psychologically. Three major devastated localities were being forever etched in human history as a testament to man inhumanity to man as if knowingly accepting the motto: ‘live and let die’ instead of ‘live and let live’. The sites were Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Chernobyl. The first two were outcomes of the senseless destructive power of military weaponry created to end the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler’s rein of power but was used instead for logistic reason saving soldiers’ lives in the Pacific campaign ignited by the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The third disaster is obviously an engineering accident which could have originated from human errors. Human error of judgment or action whether premeditated or not requires no justification but only compassionate forgiveness, for to err is human but to forgive is divine.

Almost all of the scientists involved in creating ‘Fatman’ are now dead. Unlike sports, landing ‘Fatman’ on any opponent does not completely end a game or a war or any game or any war for that matter. Although in the spirit of true sportmanship, an exciting cliff-hanging game is never ended until the ‘Fatwoman’ sings. For sentimental reason associated with feeling of guilt, many postwar efforts of some scientists have been toward stopping the production of nuclear weapons.

From physics point of view, ‘Fatman’ descents are the unruly little neutral ones. These are the real continued culprits of all radioactivities (long or short decay lifetimes): the ubiquitous almost massless neutrinos. To stop a chain reaction, these neutrinos must be corralled and lassoed by subatomic neutrino boys, analogous to Texas cowboys of the Old West, back into the compound nuclei and there they must stay put, herded and contented. However, there is a problem distinguishing these leptonic chameleons (neutrino oscillations) which can turn from peaceful herd of cattle into stampeding prehistoric mammoths. And the difficulty is magnified by their allies: the vector gauge bosons of weak nuclear force and the color changing ability of eightfold gluons of strong nuclear force.