[ExI] Quantum gravity

[Anton Sherwood]

 >> On 2020-9-16 18:15, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat wrote:
 >>> relativistic mass-energy equivalence predicted nuclear forces
 >>> account for the majority of the mass of an atom

 > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:15 AM Anton Sherwood wrote:
 >> Majority? That doesn't seem right; then the relation of mass to
 >> number of nucleons ought to be less linear than it is.

On 2020-9-17 11:22, John Clark wrote:
 > One AMU is defined as exactly 1/12 the mass of a carbon 12 nucleus
 > which consists of six protons and six neutrons, but the mass of a free
 > independent Proton that is not bound to anything else is 1.007276 AMU
 > and for a Neutron it's 1.008665 AMU, and obviously 12 of those don't
 > add up to exactly 12 AMUs.  [...]

And I'm saying 0.008665 is not a majority of 1.

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