The reaction energy comes from the binding energy of the nucleus and that all comes from the strong force: Gluons.
axil On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > *“This is clearly not true. If it were then hot fusion wouldn't work, and > there* > * * > > *would be no Sun. It takes less energy to get in than it takes to get out. > * > * * > > *The difference between the two is the net energy of the reaction.”* > > I said: “The coulomb barrier is symmetric. It takes as much energy to > leave the nucleus as it takes to get in.” > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_decay > > Alpha particles were first described in the investigations of > radioactivity by Ernest > Rutherford<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford>in 1899, and by > 1907 they were identified as He > 2+ ions. For more details of this early work, see Alpha particle#History > of discovery and > use<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_particle#History_of_discovery_and_use> > . > > By 1928, George Gamow <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gamow> had > solved the theory of the alpha decay via tunneling. The alpha particle is > trapped in a potential well <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_well>by > the nucleus. Classically, it is forbidden to escape, but according to > the (then) newly-discovered principles of quantum > mechanics<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics>, > it has a tiny (but non-zero) probability of > "tunneling<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling>" > through the barrier <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_barrier> and > appearing on the other side to escape the nucleus. Gamow solved a model > potential for the nucleus and derived, from first principles, a > relationship between the half-life<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life>of > the decay, and the energy of the emission, which had been previously > discovered empirically, and was known as the Geiger–Nuttall > law<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geiger%E2%80%93Nuttall_law> > . > > This is where you are going off the track,you think: "It takes less energy > to get in than it takes to get out.” > > Cheers: Axil > > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 10:56 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > >> In reply to Axil Axil's message of Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:52:52 -0400: >> Hi, >> [snip] >> > The coulomb barrier is symmetric. It take as much energy to leave a >> >nucleus as it take to get in. >> >> This is clearly not true. If it were then hot fusion wouldn't work, and >> there >> would be no Sun. It takes less energy to get in than it takes to get out. >> The difference between the two is the net energy of the reaction. >> >> Regards, >> >> Robin van Spaandonk >> >> http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html >> >> >
