In reply to Danny Ross Lunsford's message of Fri, 4 Nov 2011 20:33:53 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] >This is sort of what seems most natural to me. Something is happening on >either side of NI62, and it gets into a cyclic state - once in a while by the >magic of QM it overshoots and you get copper, or undershoots and you get iron. >But most of the time it bounces back and forth. Some oscillatory state of the >nucleus is being excited and it doesn't know which side of the >binding-energy-per-nucleon to be on.
On either side of Ni62 lie Cu62 and Co62. The energy difference between Cu62 and Ni62 is over 4 MeV. That between Ni62 & Co62 is over 5 MeV. IMO there isn't going to be any oscillation to speak of. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
