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 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, particularly if the >> other >> nucleus has a low atomic number. >> >> Regards, >> >> Robin van Spaandonk >> >> http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html >> >> Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
