On 01/21/2011 04:53 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: > In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:35:44 -0500: > Hi, > [snip] > >> If a tiny fraction of the nickel is transmuted each second, and if >> nearly all the transmutation events produce unstable copper which >> eventually decays back to (higher weight) nickel, and if it takes >> multiple steps to get to stable copper, then by the time we've got a lot >> of stable copper running around, nearly all the nickel must have been >> transmuted at least once, and the whole lot should be radioactive. In >> > ...which I effectively already said several days ago. >
Oh. Oops. Well, hmm -- I guess we agree, eh? > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html > > >
