In reply to David Roberson's message of Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:33:07 -0400 (EDT): Hi, [snip] >Obviously it works within stellar domains.
I may have made an error, but I once worked out that the half-life of the p-p reaction in the Sun is on the order of billions of years. Since tunneling of p to p should be easier than any other tunneling fusion reaction, this implies that the weak force reaction has a huge slowing effect. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
