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To: Doctor Stochastic
So are you denying that the reactor existed? Are you claiming that someone put the parts together? Your quote from the website supports my position.

The quote from the website plainly says that if there is enough uranium concentrated in one spot a chemical reaction is likely to occur. We believe that that is how the sun produces light. There is no assembly required here. As I said, your link was a plain lie (if you bothered to read it).

1,560 posted on 05/18/2003 8:54:38 AM PDT by gore3000
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To: longshadow
This PLACEMARKER doesn't lie.
1,561 posted on 05/18/2003 8:57:23 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: gore3000; longshadow; PatrickHenry
that if there is enough uranium concentrated in one spot a chemical reaction is likely to occur. We believe that that is how the sun produces light.

The weak force is the force that induces beta decay via interaction with neutrinos. A star “burns” by a nuclear fusion process. Three of those processes are proton-to proton fusion, helium fusion, and the carbon cycle. Here is an example of proton-to-proton fusion, which is the process our own sun uses: (two protons fuse -> via neutrino interaction one of the protons transmutes to a neutron to form deuterium -> combines with another proton to form a helium nuclei -> two helium nuclei fuse releasing alpha particles and two protons). The weak force is also necessary for the formation of the elements above iron. Due to the curve of binding energy (iron has the most tightly bound nucleus), nuclear forces within a star cannot form any element above iron in the periodic table. So it is believed that all higher elements were formed in the vast energies of supernovae. In this explosion large fluxes of energetic neutrons are produced which produce the heavier elements by nuclei bombardment. This process could not take place without neutrino involvement and the weak force.

1,584 posted on 05/18/2003 5:27:57 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: gore3000
The quote from the website plainly says that if there is enough uranium concentrated in one spot a chemical reaction is likely to occur. We believe that that is how the sun produces light

Your first sentence does not reflect the contents of the web site.

Perhaps you could give the names of anyone else (except your) that believes that the Sun produces light by chemical reactions of uranium.

1,613 posted on 05/18/2003 9:14:16 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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