A new approach to finding magic numbers for heavy and superheavy elements

Using these ideas, and following a simple modification of Lucas' geometrical packing scheme, individual candidates for new magic proton numbers and new magic neutron numbers have been identified. Amazingly, these new magic numbers correspond to the experimentally identified superheavy element distribution to a very large extent, and even correspond to magic numbers suggested using very sophisticated theoretical physics methods and computations. As an added bonus, the newly suggested magic numbers correspond to the long lived Thorium and Uranium isotopes, and to the Fermium isotopes, which may help explain the shape of the Peninsula of Heavy isotopes. They also suggest going back to reassess somewhat lighter isotopes to see if some magic effects have been missed.