UNDERSTANDING “MASS DEFECT”
Copyright - 13 August 2014 - by Glenn A. Baxter, P.E.
www.k1man.com [email protected]
(Comments by Dr. Richard Feynman)
Draft 140813 9:01 A.M.
ABSTRACT
The author has mathematically disproved Dr. Einstein’s most famous Special Relativity formula, E =
mc^2. See www.k1man.com/c1 Scientists often argue that E = mc^2 is “proved” by the so called
“mass defect” found during fission. This paper disputes that claim.
ARGUEMENT
During an ideal fission of uranium U-235, the two positive pieces that fly apart, due to astronomical
electrostatic forces (listen eight minutes into Dr. Richard Feynman’s 1962 Cal Tech lecture at
www.k1man.com/Feynman620927.mp3) , are krypton 36 (83.80) and barium 56 (137.36) plus a
mayhem of neutrons and assorted elementary particles with a needed balancing mass of 11.84, mostly
neutrons, probably. Also coming out, in addition to the huge kinetic energy of the flying masses, are
large amounts of mass less heat, light, radio, X, gamma, and delta energy.
Not anywhere near all the atoms actually fission in such a chain reaction, and many of the fissions are
atoms other than U-235 as well as other component chunks, for example, from U-235 other than
krypton and barium. In an atomic pile during a fission controlled chain reaction, some of the neutrons
decay into protons and electrons and then recombine to form other elements such as plutonium 94
(239).
The far fetched argument that any mass somehow converts directly into energy is a fictional children’s
story along similar lines such as the “Tooth Fairy” or the “Easter Bunny”.
(to be continued)