deuterium cords and poles

Posted by lanecove on September 21, 2003 at 14:11:24:

In Reply to: Re: Red wine, holons, and miso soup posted by pelastration on September 21, 2003 at 12:27:21:

Dirk,

I'm still not clear about the 'poles' - can you explain a bit please?

Deuterium ('heavy hydrogen') has a nucleus comprising a proton and a neutron; tritium (which is radioactive) has two neutrons and a proton.

My guess is there are no obvious cords; they'd have been seen long ago.

What about using an atomic force microscope? Might be a bit tricky with solid hydrogen, but plenty of simple hydrogen compounds have much higher melting points, and well understood structures.

Finally, because of its simplicity and importance in organic chemistry, hydrogen has been studied intensively. Perhaps observations don't match the (quantum) theory predictions?

Regards
lanecove

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