Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-20 Thread mixent
In reply to Bob Cook's message of Mon, 19 May 2014 16:37:16 -0700: Hi, [snip] Robin-- Would a crack cause alignment of magnetic lines of force better than the uniform lattice. If so, a crack in conjunction with magnetic field may be the NAE Ed has discussed. Bob I would think that due to

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-20 Thread Foks0904 .
You see something similar in Andrew Meulenberg's Extended Lochon Model, accept that he emphasizes the importance of electrostatic forces in and around linear NAE. All the best models, I think, are pointing in this direction of a sort of trap (whether magnetic or electrostatic). Even Ed's theory

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-18 Thread Jones Beene
From: David Roberson I believe that the term gamma ray is reserved for photons that originate from the nucleus. The energy of these rays is not the criteria. One would suppose that the energy contained within the

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-18 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 17 May 2014 16:39:46 -0700: Hi, [snip] -Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com I don't think Ed was necessarily claiming that the method of energy loss was through conversion of electron mass. Well Robin, he did say the energy in his

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-18 Thread mixent
In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sat, 17 May 2014 20:06:20 -0700: Hi, [snip] I'm not sure what other forces are thought to be at play, but I think that Ed believes the cracks in his theory to be responsible or partly responsible for confining the precursors to a single dimension. What has

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 15 May 2014 15:26:56 -0700: Hi Jones, What do you make of the following message from the archives? http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg90378.html -Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com Well, there is also a possible

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread Jones Beene
Hi Robin, Sounds more like Randell Mills than Storms ... and now that you mention it, I remember being surprised to hear this from Ed at the time - since it raises more questions than it answers. The HUGE unsolved problem is that with deuterium as the active gas, two deuterons cannot shed

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread Bob Cook
Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 7:11 AM Subject: RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer Hi Robin, Sounds more like Randell Mills than Storms ... and now that you mention it, I remember being surprised to hear this from Ed at the time - since it raises more

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Bob Cook Jones--You seem to conclude spin coupling is possible, why not in this case. Bob - Spin coupling should easily be possible for a low to intermediate range of energies per atom - my guess is that it is sub-eV range, possibly milli-eV, but even if it

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Can you find anything in the literature that would indicate the very high levels of energy transfer via spin coupling which would be necessary? That would be a good start. After all, we are talking about nuclear spin

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread Bob Cook
- Original Message - From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 9:55 AM Subject: RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer -Original Message- From: Bob Cook Jones--You seem to conclude spin coupling is possible, why not in this case. Bob - Spin coupling

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread Bob Cook
: Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Can you find anything in the literature that would indicate the very high levels of energy

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 17 May 2014 07:11:07 -0700: Hi, [snip] Hi Robin, Sounds more like Randell Mills than Storms ... and now that you mention it, I remember being surprised to hear this from Ed at the time - since it raises more questions than it answers. The HUGE unsolved

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com I don't think Ed was necessarily claiming that the method of energy loss was through conversion of electron mass. Well Robin, he did say the energy in his theory was shed as photons. There are only two possibilities for the source -

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:10 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: I agree, however I think the claim was that they do lose a significant portion of their own mass, though I'm not at all clear on how that is supposed to happen. This is how I understand Ed's theory. The mass-energy that is converted

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread David Roberson
spectrum into smaller more coherent slots. Dave -Original Message- From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sat, May 17, 2014 7:39 pm Subject: RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer -Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com I don't think Ed

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread David Roberson
need a cookbook of how to make proton stew. :-) Dave -Original Message- From: Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sat, May 17, 2014 10:15 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:10 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: I agree

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:57 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: If your description of the process is accurate then one must assume that the nucleons become attracted and bound to each other as the fusion progresses. Personally, I do not set much store in Ed's theory. I'm no

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread Bob Cook
Dave-- I am thinking along the same lines that you suggest below. Bob - Original Message - From: David Roberson To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer Jones, I believe that the term gamma ray is reserved

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-16 Thread mixent
In reply to Bob Cook's message of Thu, 15 May 2014 17:38:02 -0700: Hi, Nucleons are little magnets. Different orientations mean differing amounts of magnetic energy, hence different energy states for the nucleus as a whole. Obviously there is one combination of orientations which is less

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-16 Thread mixent
In reply to Bob Cook's message of Thu, 15 May 2014 17:38:02 -0700: Hi, [snip] Robin-- You stated: Different combinations of spin states show up as excited states of the nucleus. Usually these relax to the ground state in short order with emission of a gamma ray. BTW, I should have said one or

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-15 Thread Bob Cook
14, 2014 9:06 PM Subject: RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer I beg to differ, Robin... Nature does have a preference... resonances/harmonics. A channel's probability is a function of how well the oscillations are matched. -mark -Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com [mailto:mix

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-15 Thread mixent
- From: mix...@bigpond.com [mailto:mix...@bigpond.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 2:55 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 14 May 2014 09:04:35 -0700: Hi, [snip] Since nature prefers the simplest way - which is via radiation

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-15 Thread mixent
In reply to David Roberson's message of Wed, 14 May 2014 18:18:23 -0400 (EDT): Hi, [snip] Much depends upon how the reaction energy is stored within the nucleus. Does anyone recall seeing good evidence that it is stored as spin energy of the nucleons? Large nuclei such as nickel likely have

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-15 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 14 May 2014 15:39:43 -0700: Hi, [snip] Well, there is also a possible analogy of the QM depletion zone, which might arise in a combined type of Millsean-LENR situation, such that the makeup nuclear reaction only occurs in a severely energy depleted zone

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-15 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com Well, there is also a possible analogy of the QM depletion zone, which might arise in a combined type of Millsean-LENR situation, such that the makeup nuclear reaction only occurs in a severely depleted zone (due to orbital redundancy being

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread Bob Cook
would occur. Mark--Does this make any sense? Bob - Original Message - From: MarkI-ZeroPoint To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 10:33 PM Subject: RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer To follow up, another interesting tidbit in that Wikipage

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
of the usual emission of a gamma photon. -mark From: Bob Cook [mailto:frobertc...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:27 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer Mark-- A simple definition of a metastable nuclear isomer and how they can be created is warranted

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread Jones Beene
This is somewhat similar to the lochon explanation: Lochon Catalyzed D-D Fusion in Deuterated Palladium in the Solid State by Sinha and Meulenberg Lochons are hypothesized to be electron pairs which can form on a deuteron to give D- (which is a bosonic ion) in Palladium Deuteride. Supposedly,

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread Roarty, Francis X
]:Nuclear isomer This is somewhat similar to the lochon explanation: Lochon Catalyzed D-D Fusion in Deuterated Palladium in the Solid State by Sinha and Meulenberg Lochons are hypothesized to be electron pairs which can form on a deuteron to give D- (which is a bosonic ion) in Palladium Deuteride

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread Jones Beene
Fran, The good-news bad-news problem with down-conversion of x-rays, as well as the other hypotheses for the absence of high energy gamma radiation, including that of Hagelstein, is that yes, they could possibly operate some of the time, or even most of the time. The mechanism may sound logical,

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread Bob Cook
to lower energy states should not involve gammas or x-rays only distribution/conservation of angular momentum. Bob - Original Message - From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:05 AM Subject: RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer Fran, The good

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread Jones Beene
Hi Bob, I agree that spin coupling is possible, even likely. However, what is missing from the discussion is the issue of exclusivity. How does spin coupling suddenly become the only route to shed energy, especially when it never was more than a minor route in standard physics? In short, just

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread torulf.greek
If the energy levels between isomers are small enough there may be a more soft radiation. It may exist a sett of un known isomers of He4, He3, T and maybe D and Li6. If hydrogen nucleus come together (p+D, D+D, p+T, D+T, T+T) through a mechanisms like those proposed by Hagelstein or by Storms

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: torulf.gr...@bredband.net If the energy levels between isomers are small enough there may be a more soft radiation. It may exist a set of unknown isomers of He4, He3 ...For this isomers there must exist a huge number of lower energy stage and a relative

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread torulf.greek
Storms theory may get into this? On Wed, 14 May 2014 13:45:26 -0700, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: -Original Message- From: torulf.gr...@bredband.net If the energy levels between isomers are small enough there may be a more soft radiation. It may exist a set of unknown

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 14 May 2014 06:35:38 -0700: Hi, [snip] Problem is - the alpha is slow and the electrons are very fast - so that with this and other forms of IC, the ejected electron(s) is extremely energetic and the bremsstrahlung from it would be just as obvious as

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 14 May 2014 09:04:35 -0700: Hi, [snip] In short, just like with the Hagelstein hypothesis, we are not dealing just with merely an alternative route to shed high energy - but instead - to an exclusive alternative. As I see it, the only way any

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 14 May 2014 09:04:35 -0700: Hi, [snip] Since nature prefers the simplest way - which is via radiation, any mention of exclusivity presents an almost insurmountable problem, especially if there is no model in standard nuclear physics. Actually nature has

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread mixent
In reply to MarkI-ZeroPoint's message of Tue, 13 May 2014 22:25:37 -0700: Hi, [snip] If you go back through the archives, you will see that I have mentioned a modified form of IC frequently in connection with Hydrino fusion. However, as Jones pointed out, it does have the problem of producing

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread David Roberson
-Original Message- From: mixent mix...@bigpond.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, May 14, 2014 6:01 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer In reply to MarkI-ZeroPoint's message of Tue, 13 May 2014 22:25:37 -0700: Hi, [snip] If you go back through the archives, you will see that I have

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com In short, just like with the Hagelstein hypothesis, we are not dealing with merely an alternative route to shed high energy - but instead - to an exclusive alternative As I see it, the only way any alternative can be exclusive is if the

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread Bob Cook
fractionation may not be exclusive. Bob - Original Message - From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 9:04 AM Subject: RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer Hi Bob, I agree that spin coupling is possible, even likely. However, what is missing

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-14 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Bob Cook Most excitation of Nuclei to determine isomeric states has been via neutron activation or proton excitation using reactors for neutrons or accelerators for protons. Not much has been via electromagnetic excitation. Yes, that is a good point, but not

[Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-13 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Vorts, A Fellow Friend of Fringe Facts sent me to gander at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_isomer And here is what caught my attention that might apply to LENR/CF: --- Internal conversion Metastable isomers may also decay by internal conversion

RE: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-13 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
. --- All together now. Where, oh where, did the gamma rays go... Oh where, oh where can they be! -mark iverson From: MarkI-ZeroPoint [mailto:zeropo...@charter.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 10:26 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer Vorts, A Fellow Friend