quite delayed, but as you observe - nothing is fast enough to "disconnect" nSec (even pSec) magnetic phenomena.

As to the article and practicability of the nice drawings - dunno about 50 MAmps, VS the # of joules storable in today's practical-sized even exotic caps. A watt is a joule/sec. Q=CV re the cap bank's max energy storage. 50 MA --> ~ 10x Avogadro's number of electrons flowing, but at what potential ???

Unless the voltage is humongous at source - megavolt/meter has been a ballpark re military EMP via nuclear source - and given inverse-cube attenuation.. I don't see this dream becoming a nightmare.

But the principle is right - we've made selves so techno-dependent (down to the steam iron) that the loss of a quadrillion xsistor junctions would turn us all OFF - including the xsistor fabs themselves. Not a new idea amongst physics folk - for >40 years.


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