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Thu, 10/05/2006 - 09:02I have been looking this answer up for a while, and I'm still not sure of all the answers, but here goes:
E-126 has had many predicted half lifes ranging from 1 million years to billions of years. All the evidence of the life span is theoretical at best, and pure guesswork at worst. The idea is that the best shape for a nucleus is near-spherical and that it has a set number of protons and neutrons.
These numbers happen to be:
protons, Z = 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82,
neutrons, N = 2, 8, 20, 50, 82, 126.
If the half life of E-126 is billions of years, then there is a chance that it could be on Earth. Or should I say, in the earth. If the sun before our one had enough energy in its decay to make the element, then it would be likely that the heavy elements would be attracted to the centre of any gravity well faster than the lighter elements. If any escaped the Sun's formation then there could be some somewhere in the Earth. If it's in the Earth, it could be possible that it is brought to the surface. So there could be deposits, and you could open up a mine!
But in that last paragraph, there were 4 "if"s, 4 "could be"s, 1 "chance", 1 "would be" and 1 "possibly"! (unless I have missed one)
If the half-life is in millions of years, then it is very unlikely to have collated into a deposit.
Evaluation:
If you find some then you are a far-sighted entrepeneur,
If not then yes, you are fully qualified as a:
loony crazy guy?
Ps: Thank you for giving me an excuse to sit down for hours thinking about something apart from how much cars seem to cost their owners!
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Mon, 10/09/2006 - 08:18The full-life is not really possible to predict; there's all sorts of wierd probablity things to take account, so its easier to do a half-life!
But i wish swyves the best of luck, and can i have a percentage of the profits if you find some? pleeease?
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Submitted by swyves on Sun, 07/30/2006 - 05:20.From the predictions of nuclear physicists who Know Things, element 126 would be more stable than other trans-uranic elements. I was very surprised to find this little article:
http://www.apsidium.com/elements/126_ubh_biotite.pdf
which seems very suggestive to me; the fact that the element couldn't be found now doesn't mean that it wasn't there to start with. But here, I need some thoughts from my friendly geologists:
how old would these rocks (Madagascan biotite) be? Would it be a working hypothesis that the rock formed with element 126 inclusions, which then decayed to such a level as not to be detectable?
if thats true, does it mean that effectively all element 126 there ever was in the world is now gone?
does this idea (and my subsequent plans to find element 126 ore in the wild) go all the way towards qualifying me as a loony crazy guy?
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swyves