On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Alain Sepeda <[email protected]> wrote:
it remind me the observation of Iwamura as noticed in the book of Ed > Storms, that transmutation seems to be the fusion with an even number of > deuteron (2-4-6), with preference to stable isotopes. > Ed draws the conclusion that the only way that these transmutations can occur is through the simultaneous capture of several deuterons in a single reaction. The reason he gives is that the species that would involve a single capture are not observed. I think this is doubtful reasoning. There could be other reasons that the species are not observed. I do not discount the possibility of simultaneous capture, but it is certainly not the first hypothesis I would investigate. I would start out assuming that there is pile-on -- i.e., first a deuteron is captured, then another, then another, etc., over a relatively short period of time. Eric
