PROTIUM — Decay Workbook

What this is

A Jupyter notebook that recomputes nuclear decay quantities — Q-values, mass deficits, and half-lives — in QUIP, CHIP, and BLIP units. Mass deficit is crossed natively through the bridge constant k_protium (K☉), which exactly matches the values that would be derived through SI c². All PROTIUM quantities are derived at runtime from Q_MeV and t½(s). Add entries to protium_decays.json without touching the notebook.

Run in Google Colab

Zero install. Opens the notebook in your browser with a free GPU/CPU runtime. Data is fetched automatically from GitHub.

Download from GitHub

Clone or download the repository to run the notebook locally. Includes protium_decays.json for offline use.

github.com/patrixmyth/protium →

Units used

Unit	Definition	SI equivalent
BLIP	10¹⁰ × τ(H)	≈ 7.04 s
QUIP	10¹⁰ × E(H)	≈ 58.74 keV (≈ 9.41 × 10⁻¹⁵ J)
CHIP	10¹⁰ × m_p	≈ 16.73 fg (≈ 1.67 × 10⁻¹⁷ kg)

The bridge crossing

Nuclear decay releases energy (measured in QUIP) and consumes mass (measured in CHIP). The relationship between the two is the bridge constant K☉:

Δm [CHIP] ≘ Q [QUIP] / k_protium

k_protium ≈ 1.597 × 10¹⁴ — the number of hydrogen hyperfine quanta whose combined energy equals one proton’s rest energy. Its magnitude is load-bearing: it shows that the mass and energy axes are genuinely independent in PROTIUM (c = 1 is kinematic only and does not merge them). The notebook computes the crossing natively through this constant, with the SI form (Δm = Q/c²) retained as an independent cross-check.

τ(H) = 1 / 1,420,405,751.768 Hz — period of the hydrogen 21 cm hyperfine transition. The notebook recomputes all PROTIUM quantities from Q_MeV and t½(s) at runtime.

For the full unit definitions, see The base units and The named tier.