On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
The dense form of either hydrogen isotope would then catalyze the decay of > an atom like lithium or potassium via a glancing approach to the nucleus, > not close enough for fusion but disruptive. In this case, the decay I assume the decay would be beta minus or electron capture (which competes with beta plus decay). So either a neutron would change to a proton or a proton would change to a neutron. My current working assumption is that something like this is sometimes happening in significant amounts. I do not know how the hydrogen or deuterium might catalyze it, but if we allow ultra-dense deuterium, perhaps that is involved somehow. Eric
