On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 22:33:08 -0600 (CST), WF11@webtv.net (߃-- ¹¹) wrote:

Could a retraction be forthcoming, as this was?
http://enews.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/elements-116-118.html
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quote:

Although both new elements almost instantly decay into other elements,
the sequence of decay events is consistent with theories that have long
predicted an "island of stability" for nuclei with approximately 114
protons and 184 neutrons.

"We jumped over a sea of instability onto an island of stability that
theories have been predicting since the 1970s," said nuclear physicist
Victor Ninov who was first author of a paper that has been submitted to
Physical Review Letters.

C.