Horace's interesting post on chemically induced half-life change of Be-7 has encouraged me to speculate further on the comparison between the chart of the nuclides and the suction power relations for clays.
One advantage of being a quasi modo is that one can approach a subject without any preconceived ideas 8-) . I have drawn attention previously to the congruence of the chart and the power relation, in particular the similarity between the behaviour of wet and dry clay lumps under environmental disturbance and the behaviour of the fusile and fissile nuclei. To summarize: Wet clay lumps fuse when impacted on each other. Light nuclei i fuse when impacted on each other. Dry clay lumps break up when impacted Heavy nuclei fission when impacted. Now this phenomena relates to changes along the continuously disturbed line for clays and changes along the line of stability for nuclei. However there is also a more subtle fusion/fission relation that takes place at an angle to these lines, i.e. the movement from the slurried and consolidated regions on either side of the continuously disturbed line in the case of clay and the radioactive decay of nuclei above and below the stable line in the case of the nuclides. Above the stable nuclide line the mode of decay is electron capture. This is analogous to fusion albeit the fusion of a very small particle, the electron with a very large particle, the proton - in contrast to the better known fusion of two similar sized particles such as deuterium nuclei. Below the stable nuclide line the mode of decay is Beta. This in turn is analogous to fission albeit the fission of a very small particle from a much larger particle. In effect then, we can think of fusion and fission as being divided into two distinct orders. 1. Nuclear fusion and fission which involves displacement along the stable line of the nuclides and is a manifestation of change in Gamma-atmosphere pressure. 2. Atomic fusion and fission which involves displacement to the stable line from the unstable regions on either side. Atomic fusion and fission must be a manifestation of the Beta-atmosphere pressure The shielding of the Beta-atmosphere pressure by C60 explains why "the rate at which electrons are captured by the Be nucleus is speeded up." (see the first post in this thread) Viewing the 1% change in decay lifetime of beryllium-7 in terms of "the surrounding halo of carbon-based electrons" modifying "the wave-functions of the beryllium -associated electrons and the associated 'phase space'" is a bit like trying to understand the composition of a cake in at the molecular level instead of the flour, butter, sugar, water level. Once one has clearly recognised the existence of a hierarchical aether which holds things together from the outside then phenomena like changes in decay life becomes fairly obvious, eh! 8-) In the case of clays we know the essential difference in order between the three different regions. And we understand that this difference in order is a reflection of the pF changes. The three types of order can be represented by the three arrangements of black and white square given in: http://www.grimer2.freeserve.co.uk/pge19.htm The discontiguous order represents the slurried line where the flakes of clay minerals are forming a open network with the negatively charged edges of the plates contacting positively charged plate centres. This represents a condition of minimum contact which is unstable relative to the continuously disturbed line. This is analogous to the order of the nuclides above the line of stability. This open network gives the highest pF for a given moisture content. In other words it is effective in shielding the Beta-atmosphere pressure from the pore spaces in the same way that C60 is effective in shielding its interior space from the same from the same Beta-atmosphere pressure. The random order represents the continuously disturbed line with its mixture of minimum and maximum contact. This is analogous to the order along the nuclide's line of stability The contiguous order represents the consolidated line where the compacted clays are broken into concretions by the action of water. This is analogous to the order of the nuclides below the line of stability. The three order patterns may also be thought of in terms of lump size in a clay water mix. The average lump size of the discontiguous order pattern is, of course, a single square. The average lump size of the random pattern is a few squares. That of the contiguous pattern is in the particular case illustrated, 32 squares. The implication of the isomorphism between the structure of nuclide "clay" and mineral clay is that transmutation can be achieved by manipulation of the Beta-atmosphere pressure; by zig-zagging up and down the nuclide ladder, for example. This must be the essential explanation for cold fusion [amongst a host of other things, no doubt 8-) ] Grimer ============================= Quasi modo g�niti inf�ntes allel�ia: ration�biles, sine dolo lac concup�scite... =============================
