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EtherDais
@etherdais.bsky.social
MatSE/EE/physics and nuclear nerd with a philosophical bent. Asking simple questions sometimes opens interesting avenues. Likely carrier of wrongthinkovirus. More theory stuff @ perilousmemo.substack.com
Also there's an audio analysis being suppressed using open source data:
September 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Yes.

PATSY LIVES MATTER

Open source analysis already disproves the official story. There's two conclusions 1) someone else did it (ask CandiceO) 2) Tyler is a patsy or at least NOT the shooter.

Don't let the left-right game distract from top-bottom
September 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
August 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Purrdy good. Been playing with a toy nuclear model and my cat wants more attention!
August 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I've got a toy model that requires only a simple ansatz, (it's slightly out of the blue but it's not strictly in conflict with any data), and then you get specific configurations for the number of neutrons and protons being used. This appears to account for the staircase structure's behavior....
August 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Love them
August 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
8/N
Things get particularly interesting as you go, and who knows what will show up!

Our picture of how things work might look a bit different in the future, and applying numerical models to this approach is an obvious next step.
August 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
7/n
At #n = 5, something interesting happens: two configurations are possible, to which you can keep adding deuterium atoms for a while. One is the star, with a central neutron (it doesn't photograph as well), while this is the ring, aka Be9. The gold edges and silver edges are N/S marks.
August 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
6/n You can use d4 dice to model neutrons & account for open negative sites on their surfaces by little pieces of sticky tack (which also let you stick them together in n-n or n-p-n configurations). This constrains the available configuration space to fall into a pattern that looks like the stairs!
August 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
4/n

This problem has burned like an ember in the back of my mind for years, asking for an answer. Eventually I found an ansatz. Not unformed, but seemingly a bit arbitrary to someone who hadn't walked the path. It turns out, it looks like it works pretty well! (to 1st & 2nd order)
August 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
3/n

They also don't explain why fission is asymmetric (you get a big and small fragment basically ALWAYS). Edo Kaal's Structured Atom Model attempted to explain this, but it has several substantial problems which make it not terribly predictive (it actually predicts undiscovered elements - 😬)
August 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
As a child, getting into science-y things, there was something which always jumped out at me that I wanted to understand:

The "staircase of stability" in the isotope chart.

If you don't know what i'm talking about, you can view one at the IAEA website: www-nds.iaea.org/relnsd/vchar...

🧵👇🙏

1/n
August 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM