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Published online 30 July 2008 | Nature 454, 563 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454563b
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The director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, talks to Eric Hand about the uncertain future of particle colliders in the United States.
Did Fermilab welcome the $337.5 million for science in last month's congressional spending bill after a dismal 2008 budget?
Fermilab received an allocation of essentially $29.
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It is a very sad day for scientists who sold their souls and their integrity for the financial security of well-funded "group-think" projects. The National Academy of Sciences designed and funded such projects to find evidence for their model of how the universe ought to be: _1._ An imaginary "Big Bang" made mostly Hydrogen; _2._ The Sun and all other ordinary stars are balls of Hydrogen; _3._ Hydrogen-fusion sustains life, powers the Sun and the cosmos; _4._ NAS spent billions of dollars and guided one "group-think" project to show that the Sun and Jupiter formed out of the same batch of elements, another to solve the solar neutrino puzzle with oscillation neutrinos, etc. The only problem is that NONE OF THESE ARE TRUE. Particle colliders and accelerators cannot mimic a Big Bang that never happened. They cannot create a Hydrogen fusion reactor that mimics stars powered by repulsive interactions between neutrons. Etc. My profile shows references and links to many of the measurements that NAS and "group-think" scientists have ignored for the last four decades. http://myprofile.cos.com/manuelo09 Here are links to a couple of summary papers: _1._ "The Sun is a plasma diffuser that sorts atoms by mass", Physics of Atomic Nuclei 69, number 11, pp. 1847-1856 (2006); ISSN 1063-7788: http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0609509 _2._ "On the Cosmic Nuclear Cycle and the Similarity of Nuclei and Stars", J. Fusion Energy 25, 107-114 (2006); DOI:10.1007/s10894-006-9009-6: http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/nucl-th/0511051
Despite all of the efforts to make the universe fit models, about sixty-five (65) nuclear physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and several other leading research facilities and universities around the world, including MIT [1,2], have just cautiously confirmed our earlier reports of strongly repulsive forces between neutrons [3,4]. This signals an end to the story of Hydrogen creation in a Big Bang, to the standard model of Hydrogen-filled stars, and to the illusion that the universe is powered by Hydrogen-fusion. Oliver K. Manuel, Emeritus Professor of Nuclear Chemistry, Former NASA Principal Investigator for Apollo Samples, http://www.omatumr.com REFERENCES: _01._ Yousef Makdisi, Eli Piasetzky, John Watson and Mark Strikman, "The Study of Cold, Dense Nuclear Matter at BNL", Brookhaven National Laboratory: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:TCNi4vA5KCcJ:www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/docs/ColdDenseNuclearMatter.pdf+Probing+Cold+Dense+Nuclear+Matter&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us or http://tinyurl.com/5tg4tv or http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/docs/ColdDenseNuclearMatter.pdf _02._ R. Subedi and 63 co-authors, "Probing cold dense nuclear matter", Science (13 June 2008) 320, pp. 1476 - 1478. DOI: 10.1126/science.1156675, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/320/5882/1476?ck=nck _03._ O. Manuel, C. Bolon, A. Katragada, and M. Insall, "Attraction and repulsion of nucleons: Sources of stellar energy", Journal of Fusion Energy 19 (2001) pp. 93-98. http://www.omatumr.com/abstracts/jfeinterbetnuc.pdf _04._ O. Manuel, M. Mozina, and H. Ratcliffe, "On the cosmic nuclear cycle and the similarity of nuclei and stars", Journal of Fusion Energy 25 (2006) 107-114; DOI:10.1007/s10894-006-9009-6 http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/nucl-th/0511051
Nuclear and particle physicists do not need new research grants or large accelerators or colliders to figure out the energy source that sustains life and powers the Sun and the cosmos. In the spring of 2000, five graduate students (Cynthia Bolon, Shelonda Finch, Daniel Ragland, Matthew Seelke and Bing Zhang) and I discovered the answer in this three-dimensional (3-D) plot of the rest masses of the 3,000 different types of atoms that constitute all visible matter in the universe: http://www.omatumr.com/Data/2000Data.htm This "Cradle of the Nuclides" was first published on the cover of the Proceedings of the 1999 ACS Symposium that I organized with Nobel Lauteate Glenn T. Seaborg on the "Origin of Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post-1957 Observations."