From: Brad Sparks <RB47Expert@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:48:29 EDT
Fwd Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 04:09:50 -0400
Subject: Re: Element 118 (And 116?) Just Spurious Data -


 >Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:19:53 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
 >From: Nick Balaskas <nikolaos@yorku.ca>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@home.com>
 >Subject: Re: Element 118 (And 116?) Just Spurious Data


 >>From: Brad Sparks <RB47Expert@aol.com>
 >>Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:31:21 EDT
 >>Subject: Re: Element 118 (And 116?) Just Spurious Data
 >>To: ufoupdates@home.com

 ><snip>

 >>And of course the Lazar story is a monstrous bold-faced lie from
 >>beginning to end. He claims to have carried around pounds of
 >>so-called (nonexistent) Element 115, when in fact it would be so
 >>highly radioactive it would vaporize his skin, etc. His whole
 >>story betrays such incredible imbecilic ignorance of nuclear
 >>physics (even numbered elements 114 and 118 are the islands of
 >>stability not odd numbers such as 115).

 >Hi Brad.

 >Although you may be right that Bob Lazar's story about working
 >on ET technology and flying saucers, including his handling of
 >Element 115, is a complete lie, your conclusion cannot be
 >supported just from the knowledge of physics Lazar has exhibited
 >publicly.

 >We should not forget that the atoms in a sample consisting of
 >only one element (such as a piece of 100% Carbon or 100%
 >Uranium) are not all exactly identical to each other with
 >respect to the mass of their nucleus. Although the different
 >isotopes for a given element will have the same chemical
 >properties, some isotopes will be stable (eg. Carbon 12) while
 >others will decay or be radioactive (eg. Carbon 14).

 >From the patterns observed in plots of the elements (including
 >their isotopes) and their stability, nuclear physicists
 >predicted that Element 114 would be the first of several stable
 >(i.e non- decaying or radioactive) heavier elements. The nucleus
 >of this stable isotope of Element 114 was to have 114 protons
 >and 184 neutrons.

 >Since the recently discovered Element 114 decayed quite rapidly,
 >it did NOT prove the non-existence of this predicted "island of
 >stability" because the sum of the neutrons in the two lighter
 >elements that were fused together to produce Element 114 had
 >about 8 to 10 neutrons less than the predicted stable isotope.
 >Until this heavier isotope of Element 114 (or better still,
 >Lazar's Element 115) is produced, physicists will not be able to
 >say with confidence if Lazar claims are true or false.


 >Nick Balaskas


Hi Nick,

Sorry, any nuclear physicist worth his salt can say today with
confidence that Lazar's claims are utter pseudoscientific
hogwash and don't need to have element 114's or 115's isotope
series produced.

Lazar claims he actually was the one who discovered element 115
in his first few months at Area 51 in 1988, yet to this day he
does not understand enough about nuclear physics to know to
specify the mass number or isotope number, as anyone with even
the tiniest comprehension knows is the critical identification
of a nuclide (ever hear of "uranium 235" or "carbon 14"? those
are the isotope numbers). Fortunately, Lazar's ignorance of
physics led himself into a trap because he and his sycophants
put together a "physics data table" of made-up alleged data and
they accidentally went too far with their invented numbers,
because they didn't realize that the product of the density and
molar volume gives you the mass number and it comes out about
424, which is way too high and far above any possible "island of
(relative) stability" around 298. They also made up a fictitious
melting point for their imaginary element 115, supposedly
1,740°C or higher than even iron or aluminum, betraying a total
lack of understanding the Periodic Table of the Elements as 115
would be chemically related to the _low_ melting point soft
metal _bismuth_ so their precious 115 if enough of it could be
made to see and would last long enough would probably be a
liquid at room temperature like mercury or even a gas.

You and Lazar are mistaken in thinking that "nuclear physicists
predicted that Element 114 would be the first of several stable
(i.e non- decaying or radioactive) heavier elements." No one in
their right minds imagines they are going to find
NON-radioactive isotopes of these elements. The American
Institute of Physics explains that physicists are hoping that
element 114's isotope 298 will be _relatively_ "stable" or
"stable compared to its neighbors in the chart of the nuclides"
-- meaning that it may have "an expected lifetime of years
rather than milliseconds or microseconds." (See:
www.aip.org/enews/physnews/1997/split/pnu344-3.htm)

So far isotopes 287 and 289 of element 114 have been produced by
the Dubna lab in Russia and they turn out to have half lives of
only 5 and 30 _seconds_.

A transuranic element with even a half-life of "years" would
emit such deadly ionizing radiation that it would make
plutonium, one of the most toxic substances known to man due to
its radioactivity (half life 24,000 years for Pu-239), seem like
safe to handle with one's bare hands in comparison (an utter
absurdity). Yet Lazar claims he smuggled out of Area 51 a whole
pound or half-kilo of element 115 which would be even more
unstable than 114 because of the uneven number of protons and
the resulting incomplete and unstable nuclear shell
configuration.

It is manifestly clear to me that Lazar heard something about
element 114 from some some popular reading and screwed it up,
got the number wrong, didn't understand the nuclear physics so
as to know how to correct the number 115 to 114, and then
because of colossal ignorance of comic book nuclear physics
failed to realize that the predicted "stability" of 114 didn't
mean total "stability" as if it was _non-radioactive_ and never
understood that it would still be extremely radioactive and
deadly, the "stability" being only to a relative degree compared
to surrounding even more volatile elements/isotopes with
half-lives of fractions of a second.

Why do you coddle and defend these notorious frauds and
purveyors of monstrous ignorance who bring such total discredit
to UFO research and to science?


Brad