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Originally posted by Diplomat
And if you or Bob really do still have a piece of the element, then I hope you plan on at least doing something productive with it. At least send a tiny piece to be analyzed or something...
Originally posted by Sunsetspawn
A lot of debunkers quickly turn to this as evidence that Lazar is a liar, and it is these debunkers that are NEVER to be trusted. Using the quick decay rate of the lab created Uup to debunk Lazar is either totally dishonest or quite a bit ignorant. And even some of the ignorant debunkers are dishonest because they debunk things while being well aware that they don't know what they are talking about.
The isotope of Uup that was created had 173 neutrons and an atomic weight of 288, and the predicted stable isotope of Uup should have 184 neutrons and an atomic weight of 299.
Originally posted by SunsetspawnI'm not saying that one should believe Bob's story because of this, I am saying that the 115 should neither be used as evidence for nor against Lazar. I am also saying that when a debunker uses the instability of the lab-created 115 against Lazar then that debunker is either promoting an agenda or protecting his own paradigm.
So you are saying that there is no way that E115 could be stable based on a prediction of half-life? Issue resolved, no need for further consideration, go on to other stuff? Isn't this a risky assumption because there are many possible isotopes of E115 and we have only predictions not facts?
By Access Denied:
If you knew what you were talking about (and my eyes are not deceiving me LOL) then you would know that according to Möller’s Theoretical Nuclear Chart (1997) the longest predicted half-life for any isotope of 115 is only 4 days…
Originally posted by plumranch
So you are saying that there is no way that E115 could be stable based on a prediction of half-life? Issue resolved, no need for further consideration, go on to other stuff? Isn't this a risky assumption because there are many possible isotopes of E115 and we have only predictions not facts?
Thanks for your input Access! From what I have read there are about 5 isotopes of E115 that have been produced and the longest half life is about 5 minutes. I'm wondering: About how many isotopes are possible and why their half lives are necessarily so short. Haven't come accross this info yet. Still looking. Also, if E115 is the shore, where is the actual island?
By Access Denied:
The funny thing is 115 was never thought to be in the "island of stability" in the first place, it's always been on the "shore". (close to it)
Originally posted by plumranch
I'm wondering: About how many isotopes are possible and why their half lives are necessarily so short. Haven't come across this info yet. Still looking.
Originally posted by plumranch
Also, if E115 is the shore, where is the actual island?
Physicists long ago discovered that atomic nuclei have what came to be known as "magic numbers." Nuclei that contain just those numbers of protons and their electrically neutral cousins, neutrons, are especially stable. The numbers 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 are magic for both protons and neutrons.
Theoretically, those numbers come about because nuclei have a shell-like structure, said Dr. Witold Nazarewicz, a nuclear theorist at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Each shell can hold particular numbers of protons and neutrons, and a nucleus is most stable when its shells are precisely filled up, leading to the magic numbers.
The highest known magic number for neutrons is 126, meaning that common lead, with 82 protons and 126 neutrons in its nucleus is the heaviest known "doubly magic," or extremely stable, isotope in the periodic table.
"The question is, what is the next doubly magic nucleus beyond lead?" Dr. Nazarewicz said.
Those numbers should help map out what Dr. Nazarewicz prefers to call generically a "region of stability" among the superheavies. (Because, he says, it could resemble a peninsula more than an island.) Various theories have suggested that the next magic proton number is 114, 120 or 126, he said. There is general agreement that the next magic neutron number is 184, he said.
The new experiments by the Livermore and Dubna scientists created forms of element 115, for example, with at most 173 neutrons, suggesting that they are still short of what could be a land of strange new forms of matter.
Originally posted by hangerateteen
Originally posted by johnlear
Here is what it says on Lazar's website:
"Note Lazar's Employee number. E-6722MAJ."
Yeah looks like Bob would like us to think "MAJ" has something to do with the MJ-12 hoax. Cute.
reply to post by Anonymous ATS
who knows. Regardless, Bob's descriptions are interesting and perhaps will ultimately prove to be 100% correct, leading us to new sources of energy, space exploration, and understanding of the physical universe.