On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:54 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > If it happened nobody would notice. >> > > Yes. I think it would be indistinguishable from an elastic collision (if > the two situations are different). > > Eric > > That analogy assumes the excited nucleus immediately reverts or fissions back into the original parts. However, if there is a significant time delay before fission occurs and the excited nucleus is able to migrate to different site during that delay, then when fission does occur it will cause a local temperature increase at the different site. Harry
