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eee NEXUS SCOOP ---- FIVE NEW ELEMENTS PREDICTED USING ‘SACRED GEOMETRY’! In the following article Chris Illert predicts the exis- tence of five new "magic" (super-heavy) elements, after discovering a link between platonic solid geometry and the "shape" of the atomic nucleus generated by the positions of the protons and neutrons. Tceosabaleen| terhetien 2 O-O-O-O Nucleons in potential well Equivalent number of o -parti- Naive shell model cles in potential well. Fig.2. It is usual to think of individual nucleons (protons and neutrons) as the basic build- ing blocks of nuclear matter. But Buckminster Fuller's model of closest packed spheres give incorrect numbers of nucleons in successive shells. Real nuclei are often represented as a series of concentric shells of increasing radius like the layers of an onion. The innermost shell (1s) contains four nucleons (protons are depicted as black spheres, and neutrons as white spheres) which we think of as one alpha-particle in the middle potential well diagram. The next shell out from the centre, containing three 1p sub-shells, can be thought of as three alpha-particles and is thus depicted in the central diagram. The third shell out from the cen- tre, containing the 2s and 1d sub-shells, is equivalent to six alpha-particles. Whereas the potential well on the left expresses nuclear shells in terms of individual nucleons, the well in the middle diagram depicts alpha-particles in different energy states, and the diagram on the far right is a crude shell diagram in two dimensions. The purpose of the middle diagram is to emphasize the role of alpha-particles (not nucleons) as basic building blocks in stable nuclear matter. The "Magic Numbers 1,4,10 .., are cumulative sub-totals of alpha-particles contained within the nuclear core once each shell is completely filled. GEOMETRY’! We may all have seen Johann Keppler's model of the solar sys- tem, in terms of nested Platonic Shells describing planetary orbits of differing radii, and if not can readily consult Lawlor's book on "Sacred Geometry". It is less well known that Buckminster Fuller had a Platonic Shell theory of super-stable, "magic", atomic nuclei Nucleons in potential well Equivalent number of o -parti- cles in potential well. Naive shell model Ay A x iy Fig.1. Buckminster Fuller's theory of super-stable ("magic") atomic nuclei, in terms of nested, concentric, Platonic shells. These shells are wrong, but provocative. which he presented in his two books titled "Synergetics". His shells were wrong, as it happens, but the idea was correct - see Figure 1. If protons and neutrons are solid spheres trying to equally space themselves in a succession of concentric spherical shells, within the atomic nucleus, rather like the layers of an onion, then they must position themselves at the vertices of Platonic solids which nest inside each other. Quantum theory is irrelevant! This is a geo- metrical fact, to do with the packing of solid equal-sized spheres in shells, nothing Quantum about it! At the other extreme, Quantum Theory sees the nucleus in terms of a "potential well" with discrete energy levels (respectively labelled 1s, 1p, 1d, 2s etc) each of which can be filled with two pro- tons and two neutrons (see Figure 2). But what is so special about two protons and two neutrons? Well, they can position themselves at the vertices of the simplest Platonic Solid, as in Figure 3, forming the first “magic” nucleus Helium (+,He). The 3 tetrahedra in the Ip level of Fig 2, actually exist as an icosahedral cage ("shell") containing a tetrahedral core in the next "magic" nucleus Oxygen (!6,0); see Figure 4. If all the tetrahedra in the Oxygen nucleus were stacked into a 2- level Pythagorean Tetractular pile, the top one would be the core of NEXUS - 34 +--+ NEXUS SCOOP ---- BY CHRIS ILLERT, 1991 YEAR BOOK - OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1991