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> On Mar 12, 2017, at 14:33, <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> The trueism suggested is based on two- bodied interactions where large energy
> releases are the norm.
The main difficulty in this case is not in the manner of any hypothetical
reaction pathway. It is in the amount of energy implied by going from not-iron
to iron. If we assume that the "excess" iron is ~ 4 tons, and we subtract this
mass from the mass of the not-iron that produced it, the difference will
necessarily be significant. Drop that change in mass into Einstein's equation
for calculating the energy for a given mass, and the value will be an
unrealistically large positive (or negative) value.
Eric
