I don't know. What interests me is that this research is using a low energy approach to learn something new about the nucleus. Nuclear experimental research has largely been guided by Ruthford-like investigations requiring ever increasing energies. The research paradigm has been that with more energy comes more knowledge. NMR is low energy as well but it is_applied_ nuclear science. I could be wrong but at this time NMR doesn't seem capable of revealing anything new about the nucleus.
harry On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 8:43 PM bobcook39...@hotmail.com < bobcook39...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Harry— > > > > > > Are increments quantized or associated with some observable repeatable > natural event. For example, the rotation of an electron’s magnetic field on > a toroidal surface? > > > > Jurg WYYTTENBACH considers a similar proton model in his SO(4) > PHYSICS evaluations. > > > > Bob Cook > > > > > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows > > > > *From: *H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> > *Sent: *Saturday, November 27, 2021 8:35 AM > *To: *vortex-l@eskimo.com > *Subject: *[Vo]:From Atomic Clocks to Nulcear Clocks > > > > Nature article from Feb. 2021: > The thorium-229 low-energy isomer and the nuclear clock. > https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-021-00286-6 > abstract > The 229Th nucleus has an isomeric state at an energy of about 8 eV > above the ground state, several orders of magnitude lower than typical > nuclear excitation energies. This has inspired the development of a > field of low-energy nuclear physics in which nuclear transition rates > are influenced by the electron shell. The low energy makes the 229Th > isomer accessible to resonant laser excitation. Observed in > laser-cooled trapped thorium ions or with thorium dopant ions in a > transparent solid, the nuclear resonance may serve as the reference > for an optical clock of very high accuracy. Precision frequency > comparisons between such a nuclear clock and conventional atomic > clocks will provide sensitivity to the effects of hypothetical new > physics beyond the standard model. Although laser excitation of 229Th > remains an unsolved challenge, recent experiments have provided > essential information on the transition energy and relevant nuclear > properties, advancing the field. > -------------- > <<The Thorium nuclear clock project aims to implement a new type of > clock – a nuclear clock. Why and how - we explain in this video. For > more information please check our website www.thoriumclock.eu>> > <http://www.thoriumclock.eu%3e%3e> > video: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCQUZW_sxJI > ---------------- > > Harry > > >
