Old55
Should we understand that or not?
OK … I thought the conversation was degenerating into a discussion of nuclear physics / chemistry and in particular a discussion of the chain reaction. I was just illustrating the effect of a single “bewildered emoticon” striking a uranium-235 nucleus. When the emoticon strikes the nucleus, the nucleus is split into krypton and barium. In addition to energy, the reaction also liberates three “bewildered emoticons” that go on to split 3 more uranium-235 nuclei thus initiating a chain reaction (think Farrah Fawcett in those old Faberge commercials). Physicists like to give subatomic particles silly names and they refer to the three “bewildered emoticons” as craigb, bapu and Jonbouy.
