From: Eric Walker
In the paper, Storms and Scanlan describe the Geiger-Muller
activity of unknown species that appear to have half-lives of 58 and 109
minutes, respectively; they wonder whether they're actually the same
species, observed under different conditions... Storms and Scanlan refer to
a possible speeding up of the decay of potassium-40. Potassium-40 normally
decays via three channels -- β+, β- and electron capture -- and has a
half-life of 1.248E9 years. Their line of reasoning would seem to imply an
acceleration of the weak interaction and the difficulties that go along with
that -- am I mistaken here? Well, no one can say for sure - but even an informed opinion could depend on which result requires “fewer miracles” – accelerated decay or a virtual neutron. Both are possible, neither are commonplace. There is an interesting alternative source to pursue based on the Storms and Scanlan findings – given that palladium is used in their experiment as well - and should be a more ready source of any anomaly; which could be due to those pesky isotopes 109mPd and 111mPd. Both of these are “halo nuclei” and of military importance. These two isotopes are not found naturally, yet there are two common isotopes 108 and 110 which are in all palladium, which could yield the odd-numbered ones around them, with half lives in hours following a virtual neutron absorption. Actually since these two are halo that little convenient fact could actually obviate the need for a neutron absorption at all !! In fact, hydrogen in a DDL could in principle be captured as a halo nucleus ab initio. Wow, this just dawned on me – a DDL (Deep Dirac Layer) and a “halo” around certain target nuclei - are almost the same thing, no? Can the two be distinguished? Plus - If beta decay is accelerated, either isotope would be in the one hour range of half-life, yet the possibility of a “halo” makes either most intriguing in the context of a “new kind of radiation”. Correspondingly, there is little information about these two – or about any halo nuclei – due to the high level secrecy of certain coherent emission devices (the infamous death ray gun) … yet one suspects that these isotopes are being produced in quantity, ostensibly for medical uses. Of course, either halo nucleus would imply a real or more likely a virtual neutron - such as f/H or deep redundancy or Inverse Rydberg hydrogen, or Deep Dirac Layers etc. No surprise there. In fact it is even possible that all halo nuclei have DDLs, instead of neutrons ! Jones
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