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Timely for me - I've been down the rabbit hole lately of understanding how the elements are formed and got as far as stellar nucleosynthesis, s-process which in
by schemathings 8y ago
Timely for me - I've been down the rabbit hole lately of understanding how the elements are formed and got as far as stellar nucleosynthesis, s-process which involves neutron capture making a heavier isotope and then apparently the neutron turns into a proton through a process called beta decay. (So I'm all about the lifetime of neutrons right now!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-process
- kwoff 8y agohttp://pdg.lbl.gov/2018/reviews/contents_sports.html http://pdg.lbl.gov/2018/reviews/contents_sports.html
- schemathings 8y agoMaybe next "semester"! :) I love the misleading URL - those particle physicists have a sense of humor.
- kwoff 8y agoIf you haven't seen this series: https://archive.org/details/The_Mechanical_Universe_and_Beyond_51_Atoms_to_Quarks https://archive.org/details/The_Mechanical_Universe_and_Beyo... (it's a bit outdated, but the part around 23 minutes is still mind-blowing to me, especially in the context of the video)
- schemathings 8y agoI haven't, thanks I'll check it out.
- schemathings 8y agoThis was what I was watching most recently .. Nucleosynthesis the origin of elements in our Solar System Jim Connelly University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tFWA9FyGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tFWA9FyGE
- kwoff 8y agoThanks, I'll watch those. I think you might also like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ldatF3-aI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ldatF3-aI
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