Jones Beene
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:20:24 -0700
--- Robin I think you may have negated your original argument wrt the Arrata experiment. > Fast in this case is 23.8 MeV each (assuming 4 x D -> 2 Alpha), about as fast as it gets. > I will grant that I should have said "very few gammas" rather than "no gammas" With alphas at that energy, there will be *many* gammas, not very few, but for the sake of argument even if there were only a few, they are so easily detected by any and all GM detectors that they would stand out like a sore thumb, even from a distance, and could not conceivably be overlooked by any competent investigator. ERGO Arrata did not detect any, and ERGO your suggested reaction simply cannot be the operative mechanism in his device. Jones