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Highly ephemeral. I'm sure you could see any combination of protons and neutrons if you can measure arbitrarily short enough lifetimes.
by hoseja 3y ago
Highly ephemeral. I'm sure you could see any combination of protons and neutrons if you can measure arbitrarily short enough lifetimes.
- bigbillheck 3y agoAre you basing this on anything more than pop science reckons?
- hoseja 3y agoAnd some education. If you force it hard enough, any quantum forbidden state is just a stern suggestion.
- marcosdumay 3y agoNo, you can't. Many combinations do not merge at a nucleus at all.
- at_a_remove 3y agoI struggled to come up with a fair definition of nucleus. Indeed, some of these nucleon soups are more like mist than anything. And so my definition is: if a photon can traverse the width of the "nucleus" and the nucleus still exists by the time it gets to the other side, it's a nucleus. If it cannot hold together even that long, it doesn't count.