forastero
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| Quote (Tracy P. Hamilton @ Nov. 12 2011,23:19) | | Quote (forastero @ Nov. 12 2011,16:37) |
You now seem to be confusing reaction and decay.
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Er, what reaction exactly? There is none proposed for what those papers claim except stuff they made up to explain something which probably does not exist.
You also mentioned stability which has bupkis to do with decay modes.
U-238 has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, alpha decay.
Rn-212, 24 min, alpha
Se-82, 10^20 years, beta
Po-219 <300 nanosecond, beta decay.
You are confused, I have focused only on mechanisms of decay (alpha, beta, gamma), the fundamental forces involved (and particles), lack of foundations for claims of observation of variation with solar orbit, lack of an mechanism based on solar orbit that would affect the alpha, beta or gamma via the fundamental forces.
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You first asked how the sun could effect the strong nuclear binding force of a alpha decaying isotope and I told you that the force doesnt necessarily make them less vulnerable to reaction. In fact, alpha radioisotopes are often the most vulnerable to reaction.
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You're babbling - what reactions, and how would they depend on distance from the sun?
| Quote | On the other hand if protons and neutrons can be rearranged inside the nucleus by deuterium tunneling and if cosmic rays and/or quantum tunneling can greatly effect reaction rates of radioisotopes and fission, its logical that it can also effect decay rates.
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More babble, and IFs with no evidence. What would be logical is something that would change what is going in in the nuclear decay that is related to solar orbit. So, what goes on in the sun - OUT. What goes on elsewhere in space - OUT. What changes with orbit is the distance and variation of neutrino flux is quite clearly evident there. Alas for you, neutrinos don't affect decay rates.
| Quote | | Actually its called quantum physics. You and your sun god priests love fantasizing about mutationism but when someone talks logically about a mutation that can effect your scriptures, the whole congregation starts foaming at the mouth |
Now you're babbling about something that is wholly unrelated to orbital influences on radioactive decay rates.
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| Quote | | No answer to why alpha decay should be affected, eh? This group seeing variation in decay rates is seeing variation in alpha and beta decay. The fact that alpha should not be affected at all casts doubt that this is not just observational artifact for ALL the results. |
Radium decays alpha, beta, and gamma and Princeton and Purdue show that the decay rates do change |
The continued absence of answer is glaringly obvious.
Radium-??? There are these things called "isotopes". Look it up.
Actually, these are currently unverified claims. You keep credulously repeating them, because you are an IDiot. There is a long history of a seasonal variation in measurement of decay rates, that does not mean it is real instead of instrument sensitivity to winter vs summer climate. That is why other experiments using different measurement techniques are important. Others have done this, with the result being - NO VARIATION. |
Google radioisotope and "reaction" rate and nuclear force and activation energy and you will how they tie together
“They [Jenkins et al.] discovered that a spike in X-ray flux associated with the flare roughly coincided with a dip in the manganese’s decay rate. Two days later, an X-ray spike from a second solar flare coincided with another, though very faint, dip. Then, on 17 December, a third X-ray spike accompanied yet another dip, which was more prominent (see above figure).”
http://physicsworld.com/cws....08
John Barrow of Cambridge University. “It’s a gigantic effect…It sounds as though it’s related [to solar activity], but it really can’t be.”
http://physicsworld.com/cws....08
Peter Sturrock, Stanford professor emeritus of applied physics “ knew from long experience that the intensity of the barrage of neutrinos the sun continuously sends racing toward Earth varies on a regular basis as the sun itself revolves and shows a different face, like a slower version of the revolving light on a police car. His advice to Purdue: Look for evidence that the changes in radioactive decay on Earth vary with the rotation of the sun. “That’s what I suggested. And that’s what we have done.”
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breakin....lements
Power spectrum analyses of nuclear decay rate Astroparticle Physics
Volume 34, Issue 3, October 2010 Stanford University
Ra decay reported by an experiment performed at the Physikalisch–Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Germany. All three data sets exhibit the same primary frequency mode consisting of an annual period. Additional spectral comparisons of the data to local ambient temperature, atmospheric pressure, relative humidity, Earth–Sun distance, and their reciprocals were performed. No common phases were found between the factors investigated and those exhibited by the nuclear decay data. This suggests that either a combination of factors was responsible, or that, if it was a single factor,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science....0001234
Purdue paediatrician Ephraim Fischbach. “What our data are showing is that the half lives, or the decay constants, are apparently not fundamental constants of nature, but appear to be affected by solar activity,” “To summarize, what we are showing is that the decay constant is not really a constant.”
http://physicsworld.com/cws....08
Evidence for Correlations Between Nuclear Decay Rates and Earth-Sun Distance Jere H. Jenkins, Ephraim Fischbach Purdue University
http://arxiv.org/abs....08.3283
“It's one of the most basic concepts in all of chemistry: Radioactive elements decay at a onstant rate. If that weren't the case, carbon-14 dating wouldn't tell us anything reliable about the age of archaeological materials, and every chemotherapy treatment would be a gamble. It's such a fundamental assumption that scientists don't even bother testing it anymore. That's why researchers had to stumble upon this discovery in the most unlikely of ways……That's when they [Purdue University] discovered something strange. The data produced gave random numbers for the individual atoms, yes, but the overall decay wasn't constant, flying in the face of the accepted rules of chemistry.”
http://io9.com/5619954....emistry
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