Characteristics and Myths The USF theory1 distinguishes between a single, short-lived independent neutron and pseudo-neutrons existing as part of an atomic core. A true neutron is a proton with an electron located in the innermost Van Allen belt,* and which has recently separated from an atomic core. Within the core of an atom, core electrons are shared, partially neutralizing all surrounding p...

Very cold neutrons (typical wavelengths are about 102 Ä) are available by recently developed techniques 2. The features of the scattering of these “ultracold” neutrons are investigated in the present paper discussing a few examples of magnetic scattering. The diffraction of neutrons by the vortex lattice in superconductors is treated as an example of elastic scattering, while in most other case...

The most favored model to produce the radiation of GRBs calls for internal shocks within a relativistic outflow of plasma, produced by accretion onto newly born few solar masses black hole. This would produce a neutron rich fireball (Beloborodov 2003, astro-ph/0210522). We investigate the possibility that neutrons, decaying sizably before and during the GRBs phase, heat the protons to relativis...