In reply to Axil Axil's message of Fri, 13 May 2011 18:56:06 -0400: Hi, [snip] >If the negatively charged particle (muon) is heavy then the barrier to >fusion is low. Being so very heavy and long lived, if a H- ion finds a >positive particle it will readily fusion with it.
If that is so, then one has to wonder why that doesn't happen in all those situations where H- is normally created? (and it has been studied exhaustively for ages). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html

