In reply to H Veeder's message of Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:39:12 -0400: Hi, [snip] >On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:54 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If it happened nobody would notice. >>> >> >> Yes. I think it would be indistinguishable from an elastic collision (if >> the two situations are different). >> >> Eric >> >> >That analogy assumes the excited nucleus immediately reverts or fissions >back into the original parts. >However, if there is a significant time delay before fission occurs and the >excited nucleus is able to migrate to different site during that delay, >then when fission does occur it will cause a local temperature increase at >the different site.
There isn't time for it migrate. The fission to either He3 + n or T + p happens in about 1E-22 sec. For this not to happen, it would have to fission back to D+D in less time than that. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
