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Equation 10 · Part 2 · The Valley of Stability Is a Fitness Landscape

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aVAa_V A
AA

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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, aVa_V 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…

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