In reply to thomas malloy's message of Mon, 15 May 2006 16:48:34 -0500: Hi, [snip] >A 60 times greater energy out than in sounds like F E to me, it also >sounds too good to be true. Perhaps what is meant is that the photons >produced have 60 times the energy of the photons that produced them, >does anybody know? [snip] The latter was supposed to be the case, the isotope is Hf-178. However AFAIK it hasn't been replicated, so is likely not true anyway.
It is supposed to work by absorbing an x-ray that lifted the nucleus from the initial energy level to a higher level. Decay from the initial level is forbidden, but not from the higher level. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
