[Vo]:Thoughts on IRH

2011-11-05 Thread mixent
Hi, It just occurred to me that in IRH the proton is revolving very fast around the electron. The back of an envelope yields a kinetic energy of 291 eV. With that amount of kinetic energy, and at that orbital frequency, it may have a chance of tunneling into another nucleus in a reasonable time,

Re: [Vo]:Thoughts on IRH

2011-11-05 Thread Harry Veeder
IRH sounds like an atomic version of a geocentric solar system. Harry On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 5:47 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi, It just occurred to me that in IRH the proton is revolving very fast around the electron. The back of an envelope yields a kinetic energy of 291 eV. With

Re: [Vo]:Thoughts on IRH

2011-11-05 Thread mixent
In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Sat, 5 Nov 2011 21:03:06 -0400: Hi, [snip] IRH sounds like an atomic version of a geocentric solar system. Indeed! :) Harry On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 5:47 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi, It just occurred to me that in IRH the proton is revolving very