In reply to Eric Walker's message of Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:56:26 -0500: Hi, [snip] >If so, we would not have a ~ 1GeV rest-mass neutron traveling from a 7Li to >a nickel nucleus, but instead a ~ 134 MeV virtual pion being exchanged >between a neutron in the 7Li and a proton in the nickel nucleus, causing >them to change into one another.
...However I does raise an interesting possibility. Might 2 radioactive nuclei utilize pion exchange to both become stable? Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
