The standard recipe for making nuclear isomers is to bombard nuclei with high energy particles or photons. By referencing the Mössbauer effect I am proposing that a condensed matter environment could facilitate the formation of nuclear isomers. In my mind this proposition is no less fantastic than the proposition that a condensed matter environment can facilitate nuclear fusion.
Harry On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:25 AM, H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2016 8:15 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: >> >> In reply to H LV's message of Sat, 5 Mar 2016 16:00:49 -0500: >> Hi, >> [snip] >> >On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 3:52 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: >> >> In reply to H LV's message of Sat, 5 Mar 2016 11:48:56 -0500: >> >> Hi, >> >> [snip] >> >>>In the Mössbauer effect when nucleus emits a photon all the recoil >> >>>energy is absorbed by the lattice as a whole due to the quantization >> >>>of the vibrational states of the lattice. I think this process could >> >>>be inverted where the vibrational energy of the lattice is absorbed by >> >>>a nucleus. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>>Harry >> >> >> >> There is very little recoil energy during gamma-ray emission. >> > >> >Yes...and? >> >> ...IOW the normal process is little energy shared with the lattice. Now >> you want >> to "invert" the process but have a lot of energy concentrated in the >> nucleus. >> What I am suggesting is that this wouldn't even be a true inversion of the >> original process. > > This process would need to be repeated millions or billions of times to > concentrate a lot of energy in the nucleus. If you can think of a better > descriptor then please do. > Harry
