If it were up to me, nuclear fusion and nuclear fission would be called “nuclear merging” and “nuclear splitting”. Or even “kernel merging” and “kernel splitting”?
The tailbit of Poul Anderson’s “Uncleftish Beholding”:
Some of the higher samesteads are splitly. That is, when a neitherbit strikes the kernel of one, as for a showdeal
ymirstuff-235, it bursts into lesser kernels and free neitherbits; the latter can then split more ymirstuff-235. When
this happens, weight shifts into work. It is not much of the whole, but nevertheless it is awesome.
With enough strength, lightweight unclefts can be made to togethermelt. In the sun, through a row of strikings and
lightrottings, four unclefts of waterstuff in this wise become one of sunstuff. Again some weight is lost as work, and again this is greatly big when set beside the work gotten from a minglingish doing such as fire.
Today we wield both kind of uncleftish doings in weapons, and kernelish splitting gives us heat and bernstoneness. We hope to do likewise with togethermelting, which would yield an unhemmed wellspring of work for mankindish goodgain.
Cute. When I first glanced at it, my 0-th reaction was “what the....???”—and then I saw the “235″
Amazing how fast everything fell into place after that...
If it were up to me, nuclear fusion and nuclear fission would be called “nuclear merging” and “nuclear splitting”. Or even “kernel merging” and “kernel splitting”?
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.language.artificial/msg/69250bac6c7cbaff?pli=1
The tailbit of Poul Anderson’s “Uncleftish Beholding”:
In case people want a lot more of this: http://anglish.wikia.com/wiki/Headside
This is just begging to be a text in an alternative history novel.
Cute. When I first glanced at it, my 0-th reaction was “what the....???”—and then I saw the “235″ Amazing how fast everything fell into place after that...
Kernel? That’s a bit complicated for me. Can we call it ‘core’ instead?
A more runewise crosscarrying would be “the nut of the uncleft”.
Doesn’t that come from Latin cor ‘heart’? :-) (Just guessing.)
(Also, core can also refer to the nucleus plus the electrons other than those in the outermost shell, so it’d be ambiguous.)
“middle bit”?
Nope: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=kernel
Wrong word. Actually, yes.
Oops. I failed to read that properly.