Physics review: 3NF, Lead-208

Sometimes I want to write about something that interests me, rather than keep harping on existential threats to this failing species, even though this site is probably more effective in identifying those threats than the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risks, CSER. So today’s topic is sub-atomic particles. I’ve been working on this article since January 31, but every few days new astonishing research reports come in rewriting major theory on atomic structure. So, after people pick their jaws back up off the floor, back to rethinking almost everything. Then a few days, and it happens again. First was a discovery of a third binding force in the nucleus of atoms. Then a bit later, why a ²⁰⁸Pb (lead) atom is not round as previously thought.

HOWEVER - I am not going to try to force this article through Substack’s page-making system, it would be messed up so badly! So, I a asking that you pop over to read it on my web site https://www.mccroskey.ca/limits/nucleons.htm only a 14.7 kB file, plus images. I write these is simple xml - no cookies, no scripts, no tracking you at all. But do read it, it is your brain-stretcher for today!

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