In reply to Axil Axil's message of Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:20:18 -0400: Hi, [snip] >A pairing of protons that result in a total nuclear spin result of zero are >required for the fusion reaction to be successful.
A zero spin final nucleus will certainly have a lower energy than an odd spin nucleus, which I think would make it more likely, perhaps much more likely. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html