Subject: no flying saucers at GSI

Dear Dr. Paynter,

thanks for your email. I am not sure whether the socalled "Lazar notes" are a joke, we have such at 1sr of april, now you have Halloween. I remember an earlier request from Glenn Seaborg referring to this radio transmission.

Nobody in our group knows or even contacted Lazar, whoever he maybe.

Indeed we found the three heaviest known elements and found an increase of stability against fission, which could be fully explained in the frame of macroscopic-microscopic calculations e. g. by Peter Moeller and Adam Sobiczewski (See e. g. Nucl Phys A502, conference volume).

Sincerely

Gottfried Muenzenberg

Subject: reply

Dear Dr. Paynter,

I mentioned already our contact with Glenn Seaborg in this subject of Lazar, and I gave him the same reply as you.

I personally am the first author of the heavy element publications, you can find them in Z. Physik, and know all group members, nobody would have answered such a nonsense to any request.

The (calculated) stability of the heaviest elements based on recent theories refined with our experimental data predict the maximum stability for Z=106 and N=160 and Z=110 and N=180, half lives are of the order of hours. According to predicitons no isotope of element 115 would live longer than seconds.

Please read our publications I gave you as reference.

sincerely

Gottfried Muenzenberg

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