From: spudnik on
and, if at the center is an iron core,
the theory might have to be revized (don't laugh;
not only was this a mainstream theory at one time,
it may not have been laid to rest (in current research).

> This  doesn't mass-balance.  Is it supposed to be Be8 on the right side?

thus:
Rob, you uneducated bog-creature --
did you create any oil, today?

seriously, that was amuzing about the cancellation-of-submission.
reminds me
of the time that Popular Science made an on-the-wayside attack
upon S. Fred Singer; at the time they were owned by Times-Mirror,
the then-owner of the LAtribcoTimes. the article was nominally and
visually an aggrandizement of three professors (and taht could
have included one of my own, at UCLA) of a theory about climate,
which had been celebrated already (I think) with a Nobel.

they included a mug-shot of the good doctor,
along with no mention of his vitae; alas!

> Gosh. Such an important piece of research destroyed because his boss
> cancelled the application to "a high-reputation journal".

thus:
the Skeptics were a Greek cult in the Roman Pantheon,
along with the Peripatetics, the Gnostics, the Solipsists etc.
ad vomitorium; as long as the Emperor was the Top doG,
you were left to your beliefs (til, of course,
Jesus -- after it became the state church).

thus:
virtually all of "global" warming -- strictly a misnomer, along
with Arrhenius 1896 "glasshouse gasses," except to first-order --
is computerized simulacra & very selective reporting, although
a lot of the latter is just a generic lack of data (that is,
historical data for almost all glaciers -- not near civilization).
I say, from the few that I casually *am* familiar with,
that *no* database shows "overall" warming --
not that the climate is not changing, rapidly,
in the Anthropocene.

thus:
instead, we should blame Pascal for discovering,
experimentally, his "plenum," which he thought was perfect. I mean,
it's always good to have a French v. English dichotomy,
with a German thrown-in for "triality."
> of Newton's "action at a distance" of gravity,
> via the re-adumbration of his dead-as-
> a-doornail-or-Schroedinger's-cat corpuscle,
> "the photon." well, and/or "the aether,"
> necessitated by "the vacuum."

--Light: A History!
http://21stcenturysciencetech.com

--NASCAR rules on rotary engines!
http://white-smoke.wetpaint.com
From: Sam Wormley on
On 4/14/10 1:21 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
> Sam Wormley<swormley1(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
>> more:
>>>
>>> Name Reaction % Termination Neutrino Energy, q
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> pp p + p --> H� + e+ + v_e 100 q< 0.420 MeV
>>> pep p + e- + p --> H� + v_e 0.4 q = 1.442 MeV
>>> hep He� + p --> He4 + v_e 0.00002 q< 18.773 MeV
>
> I assume there is a missing "e+" on the right side.

You are correct, there was a misprint in my source. Should be
hep He� + p --> He4 + e+ + v_e 0.00002 q< 18.773 MeV

>
>>> Be7 Be7 + e- --> Li7 + v_e 15 q = 0.862 MeV 89.7%
>>> q = 0.384 MeV 10.3%
>>> B8 B8 --> Be7 + e+ + v_e 0.02 q< 15 MeV
>
> This doesn't mass-balance. Is it supposed to be Be8 on the right side?