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On the Cosmic Nuclear Cycle and the Similarity of Nuclei and Stars

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Repulsive interactions between neutrons in compact stellar cores cause luminosity and a steady outflow of hydrogen from stellar surfaces. Neutron repulsion in more massive compact objects made by gravitational collapse produces violent, energetic, cosmological events (quasars, gamma ray bursts, and active galactic centers) that had been attributed to black holes before neutron repulsion was recognized. Rather than evolving in one direction by fusion, nuclear matter on the cosmological scale cycles between fusion, gravitational collapse, and dissociation (including neutron-emission). This cycle involves neither the production of matter in an initial “Big Bang” nor the disappearance of matter into black holes. The similarity Bohr noted between atomic and planetary structures extends to a similarity between nuclear and stellar structures.

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Acknowledgments

Support from the University of Missouri-Rolla and permission from the Foundation for Chemical Research, Inc. (FCR) to reproduce figures from FCR reports are gratefully acknowledged. NASA and Lockheed Martin’s TRACE satellite team made the image of rigid structures beneath the fluid photosphere and the movie of a solar flare coming from that region (Figure 2). Cynthia Bolon, Shelonda Finch, Daniel Ragland, Matthew Seelke and Bing Zhang helped develop the “Cradle of the Nuclides” (Figure 3) that exposed repulsive neutron interactions. Moral support is gratefully acknowledged from former UMR Chancellors, Dr. Raymond L. Bisplinghoff (1975–1976) and Dr. Gary Thomas (2000–2005); former UMR Deans of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Marvin M. Barker (1980–1990) and Dr. Russell D. Buhite (1997–2002), and former UMR Chair of Chemistry, Professor Stig E. Friberg (1976–1979). This paper is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Paul Kazuo Kuroda and his former student, Dr. Dwarka Das Sabu, for their deep personal commitment to the basic precepts of science and for their discoveries, including several papers [20,21,31,32,40] that contributed to the conclusions reached here.

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    O. Manuel

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    Michael Mozina

  3. Astronomical Society of South Africa, P.O. Box 9, Observatory 7935, Cape Town, South Africa

    Hilton Ratcliffe

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Manuel, O., Mozina, M. & Ratcliffe, H. On the Cosmic Nuclear Cycle and the Similarity of Nuclei and Stars. J Fusion Energ 25, 107–114 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-006-9009-6

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