In reply to Michel Jullian's message of Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:01:30 +0200: Hi, [snip] >The exact QM mechanism for this hypothetic process is far from elucidated but >in a classical approximation, when the respective arrival times are >sufficiently close, I picture the screening electron as hesitating between the >two deuterons and getting trapped half-way in between, oscillating locally in >something similar to the L1 stable point in gravitational 3-body interactions, >at least for the short time required for the deuterons to tunnel to each >other. The rest (most) of the time, each deuteron would of course pick up an >electron of its own, associate with another D and bubble up. > >Does this make any sense to you? [snip] Yes, and it might even be right. :)
Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.
