----- Original Message ----- From: Jones Beene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:30 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Mizuno comments on CH molecules, and on his personal situation
> ----- Original Message ---- > > > From: Edmund Storms > > > When C12 is converted to C13 by addition of a neutron, the > following > > mass change occurs: > > > 12.0000000 + 1.0086649 = 13.0033548, which represent a loss of > mass > > equal to 0.0053101 AMU. This is equal to 4.95 MeV. The mechanism > does > > not matter. If C12 is the starting material and C13 is the > product, > > this much energy MUST be removed. > > No one denies this Ed. You seem to be missing the point. > > The point is that C12 has a cross section for neutrons which is so > very low that this reaction above will NEVER happen in practice, so > the energy content before and after, of a real neutron, is > absolutely meaningless to this situation. > > We are not dealing with a real neutron reaction. Period > > OK let's move on from there. You may complain that my invention of > a "transmuton" which derives from a proton initially but has far > less mass to loose, when it is adsorbed by 12C as a neutral energy > poor particle - has no basis of fact in prior science, and that is > clearly true. > > I will agree that for now - the transmuton or virtual neutron or > whatever one wishes to label it - is a "construct" or an invention > which serves a specific purpose. It could easily be fiction. > > But it is a construct in exactly the same sense that the neutrino > was for many decades a construct, a fiction and an invention - > which served a specific purpose ... that is, until the neutrino was > discovered to be both real and very close to having the physical > properties that its inventors thought it would have when it was > "constructed". > Jones > Perhaps it is a neutron made from neutrinos. How many neutrinos equal the mass of a neutron? Harry
