Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
SAM is a revolutionary new model of the atom. It completely breaks with what has been taught at schools and universities for the last 100 years. Ignore what you think you know about the atom. In SAM the nucleus has a rigid structure consisting of protons kept together by inner electrons. The neutron is no longer an elementary particle but is a proton-inner electron pair. Structure follows the principle of spherically dense packing. Recurring substructures--called endings and nuclets--emerge, defining the setup of the nuclei of the elements. For the first time, real insight is provided explaining why elements have the properties they reveal through observation. The reason for the asymmetric breakup of fissionable isotopes is revealed as well as a potential breakthrough explaining Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR). Those are just two of many more explanations based on the structure that can now be given for previously unexplained observations. A new numbering system for the elements, based on the number of deuterons in the nucleus, leads to a new Periodic Table and predicts currently missing elements--most of them unstable ... but not all.
Synopsis
This book is the result of an international research team pursuing the intuitive notion that the atomic nucleus should have structural properties. Starting with a few logical assumptions, they discovered that many properties of the atom and the nucleus can be explained rationally without resorting to quantum mechanics or the limiting dogmas about the nucleus that dominate current physics. Using feedback from known experimental data, they identified several organizational principles that nature appears to use for constructing the elements, sometimes in unexpected ways. There are two assumptions underlying the Structured Atom Model (SAM). First, by replacing the neutron with a proton-electron pair, an electrostatic attractive force is reintroduced into the nucleus. The electrons acting as "glue" between the protons. Second, that "spherical dense packing" gives the nucleus its fractal shape--one of several organizational drivers in the buildup of the nucleus; other drivers being recurring substructures called "endings" and "nuclets." A SAM nucleus is constructed using these substructures in various combinations. The result is a new periodic table that hints at several missing elements most of which are suspected to be unstable, but probably not all. What emerges is nothing less than a new paradigm for thinking about the nucleus and physics. In SAM, several known nuclear phenomena follow directly from the structural configuration of the nucleus, including nuclear instability, radioactivity/radioactive decay, the asymmetrical breakup of fission products, and the various nuclear decay schemes. In addition, the team discovered an unrecognized store of energy that may very well be responsible for Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR).