In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:19:22 -0800: Hi, [snip] >Until 1939, nobody knew how fusion might proceed in the sun because the most >obvious reaction in dense hydrogen plasmas would be two protons going to >helium-2, which as it turns out would be unstable due to Pauli exclusion -
Surely if their spins are opposite then the Pauli exclusion principle wouldn't prevent them from combining? Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
