In nuclear physics, when you break eg. a nucleus of Uranium, some neutrons are liberated, and the original atom degrades to a lighter element. The energy that was used to keep these subatomic particles together is liberated (strong interaction), and a small part of the mass is converted to energy (E=MC^2) so you get a lot of energy with a small amount of atoms.  So why nuclear fusion (the opposite operation) could even liberate MUCH more energy? I would naively expect it to take a lot of energy, not liberate it.  I'm not a physician nor a student, just interested in physics, and this has always been a mystery to me.   EDIT: actually, both of your answers are great and cristal-clear. That makes perfect sense and is exactly what I was looking for. I wish I could accept both answers, but the one with the graphic was a bit more complete. But thank you two!
Lighter nuclei liberate energy when undergoing fusion, heavier nuclei when undergoing fission.  What is it about the nucleus of an Iron atom that makes it so stable?  Alternatively: Iron has the greatest nuclear binding energy - but why?
Some questions on abelian category Let  $f: C \longrightarrow D$ be a morphism in an abelian category $\mathfrak{A}$ with kernel and cokernel both zero. How can I show that it is an isomorphism? I am not able to find it's inverse.   Let $g: C \longrightarrow D$ be a morphism in the abelian category $\mathfrak{A}$. Let $i: K \hookrightarrow C$ be the kernel of $g$. How can I prove that the induced map $\text{coker}\ i \rightarrow D$ is a monic?   I don't want to use Mitchell's embedding theorem. Massless charged particles Are there any massless (zero invariant mass) particles carrying electric charge?  If not, why not? Do we expect to see any or are they a theoretical impossibility? I added a user to a group, but group permissions on files still have no effect Cumulative Sum without Script What are the technical advantages and disadvantages of mirrorless? The main doubt one can have about mirrorless is, I think that they do not provide ttl viewfinder. Is this a big disadvantage? In what way is it worst (or best) than classical reflex system?  What are the others advantages and disadvantages of a mirrorless compared to a reflex?  Have mirrorless a chance to replace reflex (at least for non pros) in the future? If you look at this product:    you can clearly see that it is a DVD+R, i.e. once it is written, it cannot be erased/rewritten.  Then what does the "RW" logo (in the lower right corner) mean? I thought it stood for ReWritable, but experimenting with the medium shows that it is not. Run 32bit applications on Windows 10 64 Bit I've got a Windows 10 Computer (home edition), which has 4GB of Ram and an i5 processor. I need to run an old 32 bit accounting programme. The vendor said it won't release a 64 bit version (although a 64bit version exists, it's missing key features from the older version).  The programme installs fine, but when I click on the programme icon, it says the programme won't work on a 64 bit system.   What options do I have?    I've done a fair bit of research, but it seems to run up dead ends.   1) WoW64     Apparently, this is supposed to let you run 32 bits on 64 bit Windows. However, I am not sure how to install it. I think it's for web servers only. However,  says it can work on Windows 7, but doesn't explain how to set it up (or if it will work on Windows 10).  2) XP mode     A 32bit Windows XP emulator. However, it seems to be for Windows 7 only. Also according to this , you need Windows Professional.   3) Virtual Box Machine    Let's you emulate Windows. Seems overkill for my purposes. Plus I would need to buy a 32 bit Windows license. I think it would run slowly with 4GB of Ram.  4) Partition drive into 32bit and 64 bit versions Apparently, you can use the free tool  to split the drive into two and then install separate 32bit and 64 bit versions.   Again, seems overkill and it looks like I would need buy a 32 bit Windows 10 license.   Are these my only options?     Images  Installation    First run (From the error message I guess it's a 16-bit program)   Clicking on programme I am new to Game Development, All I have developed is some 2d Games, using Game Maker by . There game development is much more easy, just as simple as Drag and Drop. But, Now I wish to evolve in Game Development, and wanna try some hands with the common programming languages like, Java, C++ or C. In order to achieve this, I came around the first topic, Game Engine. So, What is Game Engine.? That is a broad question, with various answers. I came out with some conclusion after reading various links,  Wikipedia: A game engine is a system designed for the creation and development of video games. The core functionality typically provided by a game engine includes a rendering engine for 2D or 3D graphics, a physics engine or collision detection (and collision response), sound, scripting, animation, artificial intelligence, networking, streaming, memory management, threading, localization support, and a scene graph.  It exists to abstract the (sometime platform-dependent) details of doing common game-related tasks, like rendering, physics, and input, so that developers (artists, designers, scripters and, yes, even other programmers) can focus on the details that make their games unique. Engines offer reusable components that can be manipulated to bring a game to life. Loading, displaying, and animating models, collision detection between objects, physics, input, graphical user interfaces, and even portions of a game's artificial intelligence can all be components that make up the engine.  Now what I understand is, Game Engine takes care of all the common work, like physics, loading etc... As far my question is concerned, what is a Game Engine (Programmatically)? Is it a Library? With pre-defined functions and classes, which can be inherited? Or what so ever, what is it? I was making this recipe: , which was from the old Lincoln Del, one of my mom's favourite places. I mistakenly doubled the sugar, putting in 1/2 a cup instead of a 1/4 of a cup. Given the 2/3 of a cup ketchup, which was Heinz, the soup turned out way, way too sweet.   Is there any way I can rescue this? How fast would someone have to run to run over water? I was thinking about Flash, the superhero, or the little boy in the Incredibles.   There is  that doesn't answer a lot. Especially, I don't think surface tension would help a lot for a human to run over water, I think one would have to build on the inertial effect of the water.  There is one empirical approach based on figuring out the speed at which bare-footed water skiing is done, but I wasn't able to find a decent number. Still the difference may be that a hypothetical runner would have to propulse herself over the water, which may or may not make the thing more difficult.  Hence, I raise the question here. How does transvoxel algorithm work and how can I implement It? I'm looking for an algorithm that sorts strings similar to the way files (and folders) are sorted in Windows Explorer. It seems that numeric values in strings are taken into account when sorted which results in something like  name 1, name 2, name 10   instead of  name 1, name 10, name 2   which you get with a regular string comparison.  I was about to start writing this myself but wanted to check if anyone had done this before and was willing to share some code or insights. The way I would approach this would be to add leading zeros to the numeric values in the name before comparing them. This would result in something like  name 00001, name 00010, name 00002   which when sorted with a regular string sort would give me the correct result.  Any ideas? Is there anything special with complex fraction $\left|\frac{z-a}{1-\bar{a}{z}}\right|$? Is there anything special with the form:  $$\left|\frac{z-a}{1-\bar{a}{z}}\right|$$ ? With $a$ and $z$ are complex numbers.  In fact, I saw it in a problem:   If $|z| = 1$, prove that $|\frac{z-a}{1-\bar{a}{z}}| = 1$ If $|z| &lt; 1$ and $|a| &lt; 1$, prove that $|\frac{z-a}{1-\bar{a}{z}}| &lt; 1$   I can easily prove the first one with expansion:  $$z=\cos\theta + i\sin \theta \\ a = m +in$$  But it will be terrible to use in the second one. What's more, I found this form a little special so maybe there is some clever trick without using expansion?  Thank you a lot! 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My HTML looks something like this:  &lt;div class="foo"&gt;...&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="bar"&gt;...&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="baz"&gt;...&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="bar"&gt;...&lt;/div&gt;   And I want the 2nd div.bar (or the last div.bar would work too). How to convert Bedrock texture pack to Java Edition Minecraft Inverse of function is continuous or not? If $f:I\subseteq \Bbb R \rightarrow \Bbb R$ is injective and everywhere continuous in its domain then $f^{-1}$ is also continuous everywhere. Here  $I$ cannot be discrete set and $f$ is single variable function The above statement is always correct or not? I thought it is always correct. Am I correct or not? How to manipulate 2D plots?