In reply to Bob Cook's message of Thu, 13 Feb 2014 06:52:29 -0800: Hi, [snip] >Ed--Bob here-- > >The protons are fermi particles with a spin of 1/2, so 2 protons would >create a new particle spin of 1 plus the 1/2 from the electron for a total >of +1-1/2. >I think deuteron's are Bose particles with a spin of 0. Correct me if I am >wrong. > >What happens to the excess spin?
I think a spin of 1/2 actually means +- 1/2, i.e. in any given instance it may be either +1/2 or -1/2. D has a spin of 1. P -> +1/2 P -> +1/2 e -> +1/2 neutrino -1/2 ------------- D 1 ============= Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
