From: Foks0904
This is probably not going to be the instant bombshell, or
extremely well-prepared announcement from truly independent scientists that
we had hoped for.
Agreed. I don't think any of us should be pinning all our
hopes on this overturning establishment beliefs, but I think it's a rather
large/important piece of the puzzle, no?
Yes, this could actually be huge, in a couple of months – a diamond in the
rough.By that, I mean after the usual skeptics have had their say – which they will, then we should see very quick confirmation of the neutron hopping phenomenon. The energy is too low for true stripping (Oppenheimer-Phillips) – and “hopping” is basically what it is, as naïve as it sounds. Lithium-7 has one too many neutrons, based on its place in the periodic table and Ni-58 is neutron-light. That part is pretty simple logic - which needs little advanced theory to understand. The part that is hard to swallow is that the Table in question seems to indicate or imply that this can happen in a multi-body reactions, such that we do not seen the orderly progression, 58->59->60->61->60 … There is some progression but it looks to me that this could be largely a multibody phenomenon. Jones
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