On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 11:51 AM, H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: It seems to have become a truism that any change in the nuclear domain > must involve an energy change that is orders of magnitude greater than an > energy in the chemical domain. However, based on my reading of nuclear > isomers there are few known instances where this truism does not hold. > Since there is also great deal that is not known about nuclear isomers, > chemical like energy changes might be even more common the nuclear domain. >
In the context of the Narayanaswamy claim, nuclear isomers will not explain a nuclear transition such as X -> Fe. Isomeric transitions involve a transition from an excited state of an element to a less excited state, or to the ground state, e.g., 180mTa -> 180Ta + gamma. Narayanaswamy reports that he is seeing "excess" iron, i.e., iron that it is coming from something else. Eric