On 8/21/2015 8:28 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 07:17:21PM +1000, Tim wrote:
>> On the other hand, the balance between Pauli repulsion and strong
>> force attraction is very fine.  If nuclear dampers shifted the
>> parameters of the strong nuclear force even a little
>
> Or more simply, assume that the Traveller universe has such a shift
> naturally.  There would be minor consequences for Big Bang
> nucleosynthesis and stronger ones for supernova dynamics, but nothing
> that couldn't be patched.
>
> The biggest effect would be that nuclei have no upper bound on size.
> There would still be optimum proton:neutron ratios -- with more
> neutrons than in our universe -- but there would be a great many more
> stable isotopes.  Elements with arbitrary atomic number would be
> possible.  Small amounts of extremely heavy (and dense) stable
> elements would be produced in supernovas, or could be produced
> artificially.
>
>
	This is already reflected in canon. There is one mention of "Onnesium", a extra
heavy element (118), which is both rare and stable. Superdense (bonded or not)
which makes no sense from a standard physics may be more plausible with such a
change.

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