Patrick Simmons+FollowMercury’s Fission Mystery Cracked!Turns out, mercury-180 splits in a totally weird way that old models just couldn’t explain—but now, scientists used a wild five-dimensional model to finally nail down why. Unlike uranium, mercury’s fission is super asymmetric, and this new approach shows nuclear shell effects matter way more (and at higher energies) than anyone thought. Basically, this could totally change how we predict nuclear reactions for a bunch of elements! #ScienceNews #Physics #NuclearFission #Science40Share
