The field of nuclear quantum theory was like a snake swallowing a hippo of funding. People studying electronic structure end up bringing advances back to nuclea

The field of nuclear quantum theory was like a snake swallowing a hippo of funding. People studying electronic structure end up bringing advances back to nuclear theory, because many of the practitioners of advanced nuclear shell structure simply aged away before computers got so powerful. I'm optimistic that there will be more developments... There's several laser accessible transitions known. https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08320 https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08320