As we mentioned in previous postings, any nuclear reaction with Rb is extremely unlikely, if we assume it is related in any way to a thermonuclear reaction.
HOWEVER, and this is the interesting point: there is actually one category of reaction involving bosons that has not been ruled out and might even be favored with heavy bosons. BTW - I am still having a hard time getting around the resistance to an isotope with a published spin of 3/2 being a boson - but apparently this one somehow qualifies in the B-E "statistics" category ... Anyway, the one and only kind of reaction that might actually be favored, when a large Z nuclear boson goes in-and-out of a (putative) transitory BEC state rapidly at near-ambient temperature (as opposed to the near zero K situation) is that even though there would be NO change in the COMPONENTS (protons, neutrons) of the nucleus, there could be change in the geometric structure - this is known as nuclear isomerism. Turns out that Wiki-the-magnificent has an entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_isomer These nuclear isomers are have prolated or elongated structure that is metastable, and allow a secondary decay (such as a gamma or beta decay) with increased probability. If there is transmutation at all, then it occurs as a secondary step following nuclear isomerism. Jones -----Original Message----- From: Horace Heffner Subject: Re: [Vo]:Doing the Bosenova On Feb 4, 2010, at 7:30 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: > Note that in the neighborhood of Rb there is a slight kink in the curve. This may allow reactions like 2 Rb -> A + B + energy, where A is lighter than Rb and B is heavier than Rb. > Perhaps Horace can run his program and see if there are any > exothermic reactions > possible? Here are the results if you give the reactions 2 MeV margin for catalytic electrons: Energetically Feasible Stable Bose Condensate Pairs X, Y Resulting from Reactions of the Form: Rb + Rb --> X + Y + energy [snip]
