Equation 10 · Part 1 · The Valley of Stability Is a Fitness Landscape
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Read as a fitness landscape, each term is a distinct cost or bonus of viability rather than an abstract fitting parameter. The volume term, A , is the baseline: every nucleon in the interior feels attraction from its immediate neighbors, so binding energy grows roughly in proportion to the number of nucleons, the way a population’s raw fitness might scale with sheer numbers before any structural penalty is applied. The surface…
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- [11] Zur Theorie der Kernmassen ↗
- [13] The atomic nuclide with the highest mean binding energy ↗
- [1] The AME 2020 atomic mass evaluation (I). Evaluation of input data, and adjustment procedures ↗
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