Jones -- I've been in contact on-and-off with Peter H. since last October, but he's a very busy man with his teaching duties, etc. and I try not to bother him too much. But I agree he is on my short-list no doubt and will get a hold of him sooner than later.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > Correction and addition. We seem to going from Ni58 all the way to Ni62, > much of the time without the orderly progression 58->59->60->61->62. > > As for “hopping”… guess who is on the case: > > https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:27064120 > > On the possibility of neutron hopping in crystals > < > https://inis.iaea.org/search/searchsinglerecord.aspx?recordsFor=SingleRecor > d&RN=27064120> > by Hagelstein, P. (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, In > multiconfigurational Hartree-Fock calculations of isolated nuclei, mixing > between bound and continuum orbitals can occur due to correlation effects, > leading to minor corrections in calculated energy levels and nuclear matrix > elements. The analogous computation for a collection of nuclei in a lattice > differs qualitatively. > > John – time to call Peter for a YouTube interview ? > > _____________________________________________ > From: Jones Beene > > 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->62 … There is some progression but it looks to me that this > could be largely a multibody phenomenon. > > Jones > > > > > > >
