I am not a nuclear physicist but I have studied these structures. <PERSON> is not a fool. He knows what he is talking about. The claim that "everything possible occurs in nature" is not true. While fullerenes and tetrahedral carbon/diamond does occur, and while you could point to "natural" stainless steels, such as iron-cobalt-nickel meteorites, I can point to unnatural, manmade structures that do not occur in nature. Japanese metallurgists have made an Austenitic Stainless steel called H-1 which uses nitrogen in place of carbon in the iron matrix, and thus it is nearly 100 percent impervious to rust and is used in knife blades by Spyderco knives. Stainless steel does not occur in bone structures and yet steel is ten times stronger than bone. 561
Because something does not occur in nature does not make it impossible.
I guess the two main issues here are stability issues: 1 Could you make subatomic/nuclear femto structures that take forms other than a glob or drop. Well, what if the assumption that the nucleus is a sphere are false? <PERSON> proved the vector equilibrium structure/tensegrity/geodesics are found in nature, from the atom and molecule on up to the galatic level. You are ASSUMING that SUB-Atomic structures are chaotic and cannot have structures like tubes, sheets, bars, rods, and so on and so forth. If we find these structures in the atomic world (fullerenes for example), why wouldn't they exist even at smaller scales, like this: ? http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0112066.pdf
" Motivated by <PERSON>, in this Letter we point out the exis tence of new ge- ometric structures in QCD with high spatial symmetry. We det ermine the geometric structure and the characteristic “magic numbers ” of these configu- rations, using analogies with carbon Fullerene structures . We explore some of the interesting topological structures that can be created by QCD networks and closed cages that may be produced in high energy nuclear r eactions joining multiple QCD junctions and anti-junctions. Although the QC D Lagrangian is CP even, we point out that the junction and anti-junction bui lding blocks can be used construct CP odd configurations that may also serve as domain walls between inequivalent ( θ ) QCD vacua."
At least consider it 364