-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] > Could that happen? Hope not, since its more than all the nukes in everyone's arsenal. Could a gram of anything spell the end of everything. that is the big scare.
>> Probably not, since, as you have previously pointed out, enriched Ni62 is available for purchase, and hence 13 Ni62 atoms have already been assembled in billions of crystals, without dire consequence. Yes, Robin - but perhaps the normal use of the isotope as an accelerator target is not sufficient to achieve a transition to the super-Higgs. As you say, an anomaly would have been seen. Has anyone added cryogenics? It could require the condensate in order to make the transition, and not just the BEC but also an source of very sharp implosion such as a chirped laser pulse. Otherwise, someone would have noticed some anomaly with it already, since the use of the isotope itself is fairly common in medicine. One suggestion to test the possibility would be fabrication of a laser target composed only of the Ni-62 isotope, possibly plated into a hohlraum - which is brought to near absolute zero in temperature - and thus the nickel is in the condensed state to begin with. Magnetization could help to achieve the BEC. Say... maybe I should rush this idea off to USPTO.
