Certifications of elements 113, 115, and 117 and 118.

[majicbar]

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/...periodic-table

Certification of the discovery of elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 has been made, "On December 30, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced that a Russian-U.S. collaboration had attained sufficient evidence to claim the discovery of elements 115, 117 and 118. IUPAC awarded credit for the discovery of element 113 to scientists at RIKEN in Wako, Japan (SN Online: 9/27/12). Both groups synthesized the elements by slamming lighter nuclei into each other and tracking the decay of the radioactive superheavy elements that followed."

The only thing that I don't like about this discovery is that it is made by making a trainwreck of other atoms crashing head-on into each other. Usually, the end products of such collisions are very short lived and not the kinds of atoms you would find in the daughter products in a Supernova. Can we be sure that these results are legitimate, or are they only the same kinds of short-lived, chance isotopes that one finds as odd-balls in a synchrotron?

[calikid]

Wasn't Element 115 the one Bob Lasar claimed to exist in an "island of stability"?
Used as fuel aboard S4 saucers?
So can't help but wonder.... Does this certification add any credibility to his story?

[CasperParks]

Interesting news.

[lionheart001]

Wasn't Element 115 the one Bob Lasar claimed to exist in an "island of stability"?
Used as fuel aboard S4 saucers?
So can't help but wonder.... Does this certification add any credibility to his story?

I was thinking the same thing.

This is what happens when you secretly create new technologies without the world knowing and then everything gets messed up and twisted up. sigh.....

If I remember correctly, in the Sport Saucer, its fuel supply was a triangle chip, Element 115 'pure' (precise amount of atomic weights) that was sprayed with a gas causing high speed oxidation where the element shed its electrons? and created a gas byproduct called (I think) Element 116. The end result from this was a heavy electron field for the craft and high heat which was converted via heat-to-electricity converters or thermal converters.

[Longeyes]

Yep 115 was Lazar una una pentium.
I pretty sure it was produced years ago 2004 in fact. Heard it today watching Hangar 1 Series 1 - 'alien technology'

[Marvin]

Wasn't Element 115 the one Bob Lasar claimed to exist in an "island of stability"?

This is what Bob says today:






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[Wally]

Did Lazar mention which isotope of element 115 was used or was the most stable? That would certainly help with his claims.

[majicbar]

Did Lazar mention which isotope of element 115 was used or was the most stable? That would certainly help with his claims.

It took years before enough Plutonium was made before we could specify the various isotopes and this requires real physical materials to study. We only have trace amounts of 115 from the colliders at this point, not enough to characterize the various isotopes. From our experience with plutonium, we wii have many isotopes which live for minutes and we may not know all of these for a long time yet.