On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > one hypothesis about "normal isotopic ratio" in transmuted copper, is that > the result is the same as nature, because the process is the same... > Larsen talk about R and S nucleosynthetis process, not so different from > WL (or similar neutron or hydrino absorption) > I think the rate of flux is an important variable. With a high flux, the isotope ratios that result after everything has settled will be different than with those after an anemic flux. It is possible that you would need a similar flux to what occurs during r-process nucleosynthesis in supernovae to get similar ratios. Such a flux is generally very high. But another variable here is the speed of the neutrons. I suppose those emanating from a supernova will be traveling very fast, and if you had much slower ones, the flux might not need to be high to get comparable ratios. Ed Storms brings up an excellent point about neutron-based explanations. Here is my elaboration: it is true that the neutron-capture cross section goes way down when the neutrons are very slow. But that's a relative change of what is normally measured at higher energies, and even with a hypothesized momentum near or at zero, the cross section will not be infinite. So there will be some elastic collisions with atoms in the environment, and some of the neutrons can be expected to thermalize and exit the system. You would then expect to see a substantial number of these be picked up in a detector, but this is not seen. Eric
