Re:Ancient stars made extraordinarily heavy elements, resear...
by ajross on Friday December 08, 2023 @01:45PM
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There is no reason to suspect any of these elements are stable. The paper seems to be alleging that they existed in quantity at the end of the r-process such that they produced otherwise hard to explain ratios of other stable nucleii (i.e. their fission products).
If there were stable transuranic nucleii, we'd need to work very hard to explain why we can't find any in the universe.
If there were stable transuranic nucleii, we'd need to work very hard to explain why we can't find any in the universe.