Rigby5
Diamond Member
Critical mass only relates to nuclear explosions, not nuclear reactors, so stop throwing out terms you don't understand.And the nuclear reactor is not at all a good analogy because with a nuclear reactor, having more reactions going in nearby, greatly accelerates the reaction.
With a virus, nearby reproduction has no effect on any one virus replication. There is no critical mass.
And the nearby reproduction is exactly like a nuclear reactor, because the R0 number acts as the multiplier of infections, just like the enrichment of fissile material multiplies the reaction rate.
Wrong.
Critical mass is necessary for any nuclear reactor to work at all.
{...
critical mass
[ˈˌkridəkəl ˈmas]
NOUN
- physics
the minimum amount of fissile material needed to maintain a nuclear chain reaction.
...}
And nuclear reactions are nothing at all like infections.
Nuclear reactions add positive feedback to each other.
The result is exponential.
Multiple infection next to each other have no effect on each other.
The effect is only geometric.