In reply to Axil Axil's message of Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:54:02 -0400: Hi, [snip] >When two things are balanced, the balance can be upset in two ways: you can >change the first thing or you can change the second thing. > >In either case the thing that was once balanced is now unbalanced. > >It does not matter how you get to the unbalanced state, the result is the >same, fission.
..but the two things are not in balance. The surface term, the Coulomb term, and the asymmetry term are all negative, but their sum is still less than the positive volume term. If you decrease any of the three negative terms in magnitude, then the difference with the volume term increases, i.e. the nucleus becomes more stable. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
