Thanks Eric, So - if the results are correct, maybe we should expect neutrons are falling into shallow nuclear potential wells, forming short-lived isotopes?
I have no idea how credible the reported results are. It would be interesting to know how confident Miley is on the transmutation reports. Eric Walker wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nanospire report that the isotopes generated are short-lived. >> Assuming their measurements are accurate, why should this be? >> > > Short-lived isotopes are generally a signature of hydrogen > or deuterium fusion, neutron capture or something that looks like one of > these things (e.g., Mills' Hydrino hypothesis). Start at one of the gray > boxes in this table and move down or to the right by way of the addition > of > a proton or neutron. If you get beige or gold, the isotope is > short-lived. > > - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_nuclides_(complete) > > [...]

