What do prime numbers and fusion have in common?

[Sesselmann]

Let me present another original and left field ideas.

This one has been in the pipeline for some time, but I never got around to do anything with it until recently. I have had this hypothesis that there may be some correlation between prime numbers and fusion and recently I had a bit of time to work on it, so I wrote some code to test the hypothesis and yes, as I suspected there appears to be a correlation. My simulation predicts a high abundance of H and He, followed by a scarcity of Be and a high abundance of Si, Fe and Ni.

I uploaded a draft paper to RG here: https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... e_Universe

The code can be found here: https://github.com/ssesselmann/prime_number_fusion

As always my first drafts are put out there for the purpose of getting feedback and as your questions come in I update and improve my paper.


Steven

[Rob Tayloe]

It seems to me that a discussion about fusion should include the concepts of binding energies and the mass defect.

A reasonably concise discussion of this is found in the link below -
https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves ... ing_Energy

[Sesselmann]

Rob,

Don't get me started on binding energy....... 🙄

I have had a long time issue with that term, IMHO it is the one thing which has really messed up our understanding of physics.

Binding energy is not "energy" but rather the lack of there of, the chart you show above is upside down. 56-Fe is at ground potential or should I say the potential of earth, and 1-H is at a high potential (that's why Hydrogen and Helium float upwards not down).

Both fusion and fission reactions are decay processes, both decay towards a lower energy state, in our case ground.

I have written several papers on this subject, I think my latest paper covers it best.

https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... _potential

Here is your chart flipped the right way around.

Steven

[NuclearPhoenix]

Binding energy is not "energy" but rather the lack of there of, the chart you show above is upside down. 56-Fe is at ground potential or should I say the potential of earth, and 1-H is at a high potential (that's why Hydrogen and Helium float upwards not down).

Hi Steven,

I'm not sure I understand correctly, would you mind please explaining what the "binding energy" (or whatever you want to call it) in a nucleus has to do with the fact that hydrogen and helium gases float upwards in our atmosphere?
Or did you include that in the paper?

- Matthias

[Sesselmann]

Matthias,

I did not specifically explain buoyancy in my paper, but essentially it can all be explained with electric potential.

Ground potential in absolute terms is around 930 million volts, and it increases by about 3 volts per meter with altitude, if something has higher potential than 930 million volts it floats and if it is lower it sinks.

You should read the paper, it removes a lot of the mystery from physics.

Steven