Zero Wing

Although i'm not sure exactly what you're asking, this is something i believed could happen. Are you asking whether or not it's possible to take full control over the system by manipulating it's amplitude, or is it something else? Cause that's something i'd like to know.. Is it possible to 'create' your own unique entangled system for this purpose?

The decay rate can't change, and they know that. The rate of decay is intrinsic to the particle itself, and is defined only by time. What they want is the volume of decay and when the decay begins to be manipulated, which i think is possible. As for the nucleus being in a well-defined state, i don't think a metastable isomer is in any sort of well-defined state to begin with - it's a metastable isomer, meaning it's just short of decay and already very excited. The x-rays bombarding the nucleus to induce the decay of as many atoms it can doesn't sound unreasonable. I think i lost you somewhere.

That sounds a lot like the wavefunction collapse (only induced, rather than random), but still falls into line with Gamma Decay, none-the-less..or is gamma decay just a form of the wavefunction collapse? That would explain a couple of things for me.

Can you sum that up a bit? That article seems to touch more upon how much energy it will take for the initial reaction (it apparently being a bit more on average than what they originally thought/hoped for) than what type of decay it really is.

Ok, if you're not already familiar with the 'hafnium reactor', read a little about it here.. Now, as for it's x-spectrum amplification property, does it actually work via an induced gamma decay? I'm pretty sure they use the metastable isomer hafnium-172 because it has a high atomic number. But it seems like all the requirements for gamma decay demand is that the nucleus be excited to the point to where it releases a photon. Are both the Nuetrons and Protons releasing a photon, or is it really a positron emission that will soon after annihilate into gamma rays (probably the latter)? Even so, can somebody explain how the nucleus emits a photon and which partical is doing it?