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ic lines of force. a nuclear, not a chemical, reaction. Muraoka's glow-worm observations were at a time when scientists didn't Tealise the true origins of these emitted a-particles. It was one of the more hilarious moments in modern science ... X-Tay emitting glow-worms indeed!! Yet still today, most lay-people can- not grasp the difference between atomic (chemical) processes and nuclear ones. Nuclear reactions happen inside the sun, or inside an atom bomb, but not usually inside glow-worms or anywhere else about us that we are normally aware of, The truth emerged later when Muraoka and Kasuya finally discovered that the glow-worms and fireflies emit- ted vapour which moistened the card- board, and this wetness affected the photographic film. So worms were just chemistry, whilst X-rays were some- thing entirely new beyond ordinary chemistry. In fact, they were produced in the nuclei of atoms. Muraoka and Kasuya lnally Giscovel ke —_ — © dere and that the glow-worms and fireflies en bil citing ume tor scien ted vapour which moistened the ca tists. At Cambridge J.J. : : board, and this wetness affected | Thompson discovered the electron, a photographic film. So wonns were j negatively charged particle which plays ; 3 an important role in atomic structure ra crap a we a on “| hence chemical reactions. Becquerel ne) ee and the Curies, on the other hand, dis- —_ bi fot hey woe: pen covered X-rays emanating from in the nuclei of a, A Uranium and penetrating cardboard to Madame Curie, who later died leave shadows on photographic film. radiation sickness, found that lar Hanichi Muraoka, professor at Kyoto, “radioactive” nuclei emitted Helii Japan, wondered if glow-worms, which nuclei (two protons and two neutrc abounded during summer, might also arranged at the vertices of a tetral emit something similar to these newly ron: (see Nexus Vol. 2, #5, pp 46-41 discovered X-rays. He did in fact find | When first emitted, these tetrahed that the worms left an image on photo- nuclei don't have the usual electre graphic film, through cardboard, though orbiting in a cloud about them, and ' not where the cardboard was cut away, refer to this kind of Helium as an so he concluded that glow-worms emit- particle. It is the emission of the ted X-rays but that cardboard exerted a alpha-particles ("tetrahedra") frc "suction effect" for X-rays, similar to Radium, say, that make the dials the permeability of soft iron to magnet- _wrist-watches glow in the dark and i! a “nuclear spike" escaping a-particle Figure 1: The “Occult” or sticky toffee mode parent nucleus Madame Curie, who later died of radiation sickness, found that large “radioactive” nuclei emitted Helium nuclei (two protons and two neutrons arranged at the vertices of a tetrahe- dron: (see Nexus Vol. 2, #5, pp 46-48). When first emitted, these tetrahedral nuclei don't have the usual electrons orbiting in a cloud about them, and we refer to this kind of Helium as an a- particle. It is the emission of these alpha-particles ("tetrahedra") from Radium, say, that make the dials of wrist-watches glow in the dark and it is This is all the more interesting because in 1895 two noted clairvoyants C.W. Leadbeater and Annie Besant, founders of the Theosophical Society, psychically studied atoms and atomic structures. They noted that the cores (nuclei) of trans-uranic elements had "spikes" protruding from them. These nuclei were like large spheres dripping little droplets, radially out- ward, like water from a tap. [See Fig 1] . In the case of Radium nuclei the “spikes” of nuclear "fluid" were said to be about one nuclear diameter long. And it happens that, for “Radium, the emerging a-particles remain attached to the parent-nucleus by long viscous strands of nuclear matter which are about 1.4 nuclear diameters long! In other nuclei these “spikes" can be up to 3 or 4 nuclear diameters long, before they finally snap to release the emerging tetrahedron. At the end of each of these spikes on a Uranium nucleus, according to the clairvoyants, is "a small globe ... ... containing the components of Helium atom"! Now these are incredible observa- tions! For one thing orthodox science was still confused between chemical and nuclear reactions, and it wasn't escaping a-particle The 19th century clairvoyant investigations of CW. Leadbeater and Annie Besant, founders of the Theosophical Society, depicted large radioactive nuclei such as Radium, as spheres with radial outward moving spikes ... rather like two water droplets separating as on a dripping tap. They correctly stated that the length of the spikes is one or two nuclear diameters, and made the startling claim that each of the escaping small droplets contained “the com- ponents of a Helium ator"! Not even Madame Curie, a contemporary also studying “uranium rays", realised that they were a-particles. Because the escaping a-particle is still attached to the parent-nucleus by a long viscous strand of "nuclear-fluid" it is not free to accelerate away due to electrical repulsion, so its motion is slowed until the strand bréaks, 50¢NEXUS JUNE-JULY 1992 A SUPPRESSED THEORY OF NUCLEAR DECAY Figure 1: The “Occult” or sticky toffee model