On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint < [email protected]> wrote:
> JC:**** > > Thx for the explanations, relevant or not, however, I still think that the > discussion wandered from my initial point, which was, given proper > conditions, one can disrupt the natural balance within a nucleus and cause > unexpected results using much lower levels of energy by using resonance > rather than brute force. > And I maintain that you're saying resonance like a magician says abbra cadabra. Without specifics, it's meaningless. ** > > ** ** > > Aside from that, your comment that the large accelerators go way beyond > the energy necessary for overcoming the Coulomb Barrier seems to be only > partially right. In the following article, the physicist states:**** > > “In other words, even the most massive stars, at the incredible pressures > and temperatures found at their cores, cannot fuse nickel and hydrogen > nuclei together.” > > ** ** > > So, even the most powerful accelerator built cannot overcome the CB for > the vast majority of atomic elements… **** > > > The *temperatures* and *pressures* in stars are not enough. An accelerator does not give energy to particles by heating them up, but by accelerating them in electromagnetic fields. You need to think outside the box, and consider the power of resonance, and not just brute force heating. You can fire a proton from a small cyclotron at 50 MeV to produce Cu from Ni, no problem. And in the LHC, protons collide at multi-TeV energies, and even for fixed targets, you can get protons close to 1 TeV. The temperature corresponding to 1 TeV would be more than a quadrillion kelvins (10^16 K). There are no stars that hot. Even 50 MeV corresponds to a trillion degrees, far above star temperatures. So, yes, accelerators go way way way beyond the energy needed to breach any Coulomb barrier in nature.
