Date sent: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 22:38:12 -0400
To: iufo@world.std.com
From: Zeke <zeke@gim.net>
Subject: IUFO: ELEMENT 115 - 'Saucer fuel'

Element 115 is claimed to be used to propel UFOs. Bob Lazar and others say it has gravity shielding properties and also can be used to make antimatter. This superheavy element does not exit naturally (on Earth anyway) and has yet to be made artificially. Supposedly, ETs have provided a small quantity of this substance to the (US) Government where it is being used as 'saucer fuel' for black projects.

The following article is from Tuesday's New York Times. It reports Element 106 being created artificially, but also discusses superheavy elements in general. It may provide some clues to the actions of Element 115. Consider the statement about electron spin at near light velocities and the relativistic effects.

FYI I followed with a short clip from a Lazar article re Element 115.

Scientists Meet Analytical Challenge of an Ephemeral Element

By MALCOLM W. BROWNE -- The New York Times - July 8, 1997

For 23 years scientists have known of a bizarre, man-made element that can be created only one atom at a time, each surviving for only a few seconds. Chemical analysis of this new element, recently named seaborgium, seemed out of the question.

But a consortium of scientists led by GSI, an accelerator laboratory in Darmstadt, Germany, say they have met the extraordinary challenge, thereby deepening understanding of the atomic structure of matter.

The German accelerator team succeeded in creating seven seaborgium atoms at the rate of about one an hour. In the few seconds before each radioactive atom spontaneously decayed, the scientists were able to perform a sketchy kind of analysis based on analogy with the chemical behavior of some ordinary elements. From this analysis they determined that seaborgium, during its fleeting existence, probably bears some resemblance to the metals molybdenum and tungsten.

This spectacular achievement in nuclear chemistry was reported in the current issue of the journal Nature by Dr. Matthias Schadel of GSI (which stands for the German Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung, meaning Society for Heavy Ion Research) and 17 colleagues in Germany, Switzerland, the United States and Russia. Schadel said in an interview that his group hoped its research would help unravel some secrets of the nuclear structures of extremely heavy elements.

In particular, he said, further study might explain why seaborgium seems to have chemical properties consistent with its numerical place in the periodic table of elements, while the next two lighter elements, 104 (rutherfordium) and 105 (hahnium), which also exist only as the products of laboratory accelerators, seem chemically mismatched with their niches in the periodic table.

The GSI team used its big Unilac accelerator to fire a stream of neon 22 atoms at a target of curium 248 atoms. Very rarely, the nuclei of the projectile atoms would fuse with the nuclei of target atoms to form a new nucleus containing 106 protons: seaborgium. When such an atom was created, it careened through the paper-thin target where it was spawned and on into an electromagnetic filtering device that blocked all other types of atom.

Two forms, or isotopes, of highly radioactive seaborgium were created, one with a half-life of 34 seconds and the other with a half-life of 7 seconds. (Radioactive decay rate is a statistical process always measured in terms of half-lives, defined as the time in which half of any given amount of a substance decays.)

Schadel said that the presence of seaborgium was unambiguously determined from its "decay chain" -- a sequence of steps, in each of which the atom loses alpha particles (helium nuclei, each containing two protons and two neutrons) and is thereby transformed into successively lighter elements. For example, seaborgium 265, which has a nucleus containing 106 protons and 159 neutrons, decays to rutherfordium 261, which decays to nobelium 257. The emissions of alpha particles at each decay step occur at specific times and have specific corresponding energies; by measuring emission times and energies, scientists can follow the process very precisely.

But measurement of alpha particles was only a part of the exquisitely subtle analytical technique the GSI team developed.

As a fleeting atom of seaborgium emerged from the target where it was created, the atom was carried along by a stream of helium gas mixed with various reactive chemicals: chlorine, thionyl chloride and oxygen. The assumption by the scientists was that if seaborgium reacts with these substances the way molybdenum and tungsten do, the similarity should become evident from the behavior of the reaction products passing through a device called a gas chromatograph.

As it turned out, the reaction products of seaborgium did behave in much the way similar reaction products of molybdenum and tungsten do while passing through a gas chromatograph; in other words, seaborgium has a chemical nature about what could be predicted from its position in the periodic table.

This was a surprise because the chemistry of seaborgium's nearest lighter neighbors, rutherfordium and hahnium, does not fit the table nearly so neatly. A theory advanced by the German-led group is that the huge electric charge of the nucleus of an exceptionally heavy atom increases the spin rate of some of the atom's orbital electrons to near the speed of light. At that speed, relativity becomes a factor, possibly changing the spatial arrangement of the orbiting electrons that define an element's chemical properties.

But why should such relativity effects alter the chemical properties expected for rutherfordium and hahnium, but not alter seaborgium the same way? The GSI team has no answers yet.

The laboratory creation of elements not found in nature began in 1937 with the birth of an element called technetium. The laboratory creation of new elements became a major enterprise of scientists and military leaders in 1940 with the synthesis of neptunium and later, of plutonium, the fission fuel of the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki.

The only other man-made element in common use today (aside from laboratory tools) is americium, Element 95 on the periodic table, which is used in smoke detectors.

No practical uses are claimed for the arcane studies of artificial elements in progress at GSI and a few other laboratories, including Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., and the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research at Dubna, Russia. Nevertheless, many scientists believe that some day, perhaps quite soon, a laboratory will create a stable "superheavy" element that will not swiftly decay and that may have unusual and useful properties.

At the very least, nuclear physicists agree, the quest for superheavy elements is deepening scientific understanding of the enigmatic shell structures of neutrons and protons in heavy nuclei, and in the ultimate potential of the matter that makes up the universe.

But each step in the quest is progressively more difficult. The investigation of seaborgium is a case in point.

Seaborgium, named for Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, an American chemist who was awarded a Nobel Prize for his role in the discovery of plutonium and other man-made elements, was created and identified in 1974 at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. But only now is the chemical profile of this element beginning to reveal itself.

The scientists who made seaborgium knew that their new element contained 106 protons in its nucleus, and by definition, was the 106th element in the periodic table of the elements. From the periodic table it was possible to make some predictions about element 106, but for 23 years it was impossible to verify them.

The periodic table, which has been continuously refined since it was devised between 1868 and 1870 by Dmitry I. Mendeleyev in Russia and Lothar Meyer in Germany, is a vital tool of chemical theory. Meyer discovered that by arranging the known elements in order of their atomic weights, their chemical properties recurred periodically, so that similar elements could be grouped in vertical columns. By creating a table in this way, the properties of new additions to any vertical column of elements could be roughly predicted.

Except for technetium, the first 92 elements, from hydrogen to uranium, exist in nature. The remaining known elements, from 93 (neptunium) to Element 112, created last year but still lacking a name, have all been made by accelerators that smash together the nuclei of lighter atoms.

Simply knowing the place of an element in the periodic table is not always sufficient to account for its chemical properties, which is why the GSI investigation of seaborgium (which falls within Column 6 of the periodic table, under chromium, molybdenum and tungsten) is an important step for chemistry.

In recent years, GSI has led the world in the creation and identification of new elements; from 1981 to 1984, the laboratory discovered Elements 107, 108 and 109; in 1994 GSI added Elements 110 and 111 to its bag, and last year, the laboratory claimed the discovery of Element 112.

A major goal of nuclear alchemists is the creation of Element 114. Many theorists believe that this superheavy element, whose nucleus would contain 114 protons and 184 neutrons, will prove to be fairly stable; that is, it might not decay radioactively for a relatively long period of time.

(copyrighted article reproduced for educational purposes.)

---------------- Lazar article excerpt ---------------

On several local Las Vegas radio shows and on Chuck Harder's national "For the People" radio show, Bob has answered questions about the propulsion system of flying saucers, or discs as our government calls them. According to documents Bob read at S-4, discs fly by amplifying gravity waves. Gravity is actually two waves, identified as gravity A and gravity B. Gravity A is at the atomic level. That is, the wave does not go beyond the molecular level except in element 115. The propulsion system is an antimatter reactor. In the disc Bob crawled inside, the reactor was a sphere, about the size of a medicine ball. The top half of it was visible in the middle of the floor. Fuel for the reactor is element 115, ununpentium. On a periodic table, ununpentium would be listed as UUP. It has 156 neutrons, and it is a super heavy metal. When it is bombarded with protons, it becomes element 116, an element that has very unusual properties. That is, when it comes into contact with any element, there is almost a 100% conversion of matter into energy. The fuel pellet aliens use is about the size of a fifty-cent piece, and it weighs about 223 grams. Supporting the claim that ununpentium is a stable element, Bob notes, "...in that heavy ion research facility in Germany, they just discovered that in their dabbling in transmuting elements, and as we got higher up on the periodic chart their half lives got shorter and shorter. Well, for the first time they came up with element 109, I think, and the half life became longer, and they are seriously considering that this may be a trend and that it may lead up to a stable element. And they theorize that it would be in the 115 area. And, in fact, this is true, and this is what this element is; it is essentially stable."

(from B_LAZAR.ASC, by Mark Hines)
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