In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 8 Oct 2012 09:00:07 -0700: Hi, [snip] >If you look carefully at the images the bubbles are NOT compatible with >three identical ions (in mass/energy) and they should be if there were >really three alphas.
When a neutron breaks a C12 nucleus into 3 alphas, they don't necessarily all get the same energy. The only requirement is that both energy and momentum be conserved, not that the energy necessarily be equally divided. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
