No, in no way am I going to claim that the fission of uranium nuclei can be caused by some kind of music, instead of neutrons.

The fission reaction of uranium nuclei when they absorb neutrons of a certain energy has been discovered twice:

In 1936, it was observed by the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who gave it a completely wrong explanation.

In 1939, it was observed again by German scientists Otto Gann and Fritz Strassmann, both physicochemists, and could not give any explanation at all. Instead of uranium, completely different elements suddenly appeared in the experiment!

But Gann’s assistant was Lisa Meitner, a theoretical physicist from Austria, whom he was able to defend for several years and keep working for himself, despite Hitler’s anti-Semitic laws.

In the end, she also had to leave for neutral Sweden, where she invited her nephew Otto Frisch, who worked in England. She invited me to go skiing.

We rode.

But Lisa Meitner kept bothering Frisch with her arguments about this uranium phenomenon.

He wanted to ski, not ponder the mystery of the transformation of uranium into barium!

But she, a persistent and athletic woman, kept catching up with him and continued to speculate and speculate on this topic.

SO, while skiing and catching up with her nephew, who was running away from her, she came to the CORRECT EXPLANATION for the FISSION of uranium nuclei.

Namely, DIVISION (this is HER FORMULATED concept!), how cells divide, and not their splitting or splitting by neutrons! The nuclei ABSORB neutrons and then there are “several different possibilities for the nucleus,” including FISSION into two less massive nuclei with the emission of 2-3 neutrons, gamma quanta, etc. And NOT at the same time, but some neutrons – “late”! This is the basis for the operation of all nuclear reactors, because the fission reaction of the “critical mass” of uranium occurs extremely quickly – two millionths of a second!

But I had this thought: Is it possible to describe this reaction MUSICALLY?

Immediately, some initial conditions appeared – the rules by which such a piece of music should be built:

A melodic repetition of the same theme, but, of course, with numerous different keys and variations, “polyphony”, however, the MAIN melody is clearly audible!

The second one – starting with a single flying neutron – is the theme of a SINGLE musical instrument and a gradually increasing number and variety of instruments!

At the end, a huge orchestra embodies this fortismo theme with the full power of hundreds of string, wind and percussion instruments!

AN AVALANCHE! THE EXPLOSION!

And the last and most important question?

Is there anything like that in music right now?

The answer is as close as possible, PURELY MINE AND EXTREMELY SUBJECTIVE:

yes!

“BOLERO” by Maurice Ravel

But, of course, for future composers, this topic may be an incentive for their own vision-hearing “the music of the multiplying avalanche of nuclear fission.”

And later we can proceed to the thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei and neutrons into helium nuclei…..

Good luck in your creative work!

16 II 2025

P.S. There is also a recurring theme in Edward Grieg’s Peer Gynt musical suite, the scene “In the Cave of the Mountain King”, which is increasing in sound and number of instruments involved. But at first you can clearly hear the small, quiet steps of the dwarfs, STACCATO, but the neutrons still do not fly in jerks.

In general, Peer Gynt is a very uneven piece of music (based on Ibsen’s drama). “Sunrise” — “Morgengrauen” is very beautiful, and “Anitra’s Dance” also sounds good. And the scene with the dwarves “In the cave of the Mountain King”, but at the same time, the completely vulgar and incompetent syrupy-sweet “Song of Solveig”. I’m getting sick of the musical falseness and tastelessness of this mournful, shrill “colocaricatura soprano.”

Returning to the neutrons. The tremors. It can be argued that neutrons can fly closer to nuclei and, without being captured by them, experience elastic collisions, that is, just a flight consisting of many collisions – STACCATO!