Re: Bismuth breaks half-life record

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

As usually, there are people willing to give it a

shot.



http://www.aip.org/physnews/update/518-1.html



http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jcv/imb/imb.html



http://muonstoragerings.web.cern.ch/muonstoragerings/NuWorkshop02/presentations/sulak.ppt



http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jcv/imb/imbp3.html



http://muonstoragerings.web.cern.ch/muonstoragerings/NuWorkshop02/welcome.html



--- Jerry Cohen <jjcohen@prodigy.net> wrote:

> I am not a nuclear physicist , but have discussed

> the matter with people who

> are. I do not know the mechanism, but as I

> understand it, there is little

> question that the proton does decay. The big unknown

> is - what is the proton

> half-life? It has been estimated to be ~10^31 years,

> but that would be hard

> to verify experimentally. If this estimate is valid,

> the decay rate is about

> 1.0 disintegration/mole/million years. One would

> need to be very patient to

> observe such an occurrence.





=====

-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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