I did mention cosmic muons but I also be remember reading that they have been mentioned elsewhere in the past i Sent from my iPhone
> On 29 Oct 2015, at 21:25, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > > From: Stephen Cooke > > Ø It's a nice process you are describing, but I'm curious how it can > generate the mesons reported by Holmlid? Is there some mechanism based on > this idea where mesons are produced or can they only generated by very high > energy interactions with nucleons and require much higher energies than you > are describing here? > > I am somewhat in Eric’s camp on the mesons, kaons and so on, which could be > misidentified and/or have other explanations. The important detail in > Holmlid’s work seems to be the clusters of dense hydrogen, and how to make > them… That and the elegance of finding a way to make clusters of hydrogen on > an inexpensive catalyst, with very high chemical binding energy. > > The mesons etc. which are claimed to be present could be related to cosmic > rays – and/or to a hidden feature of dense hydrogen, such as having a large > capture cross-section for muons, neutrinos or other exotica. Didn’t you > mention that ? Plus – the sharpness of the laser pulse can cause the > occasional nuclear reaction in normal deuterium, even if there was no dense > RM. Certainly the dense clusters would seem to make an ideal target for ICF > fusion. I am quite happy to leave all of that to the National Labs, in favor > of focusing on the low end. That would mean gamma free. > > All of the high energy results, if accurate, are icing on the cake. The > “cake” in this metaphor, would be … finally … a valid explanation for the > “real LENR,” with emphasis on “low energy.” If the thermal gain can be > understood as chemical, with no gamma and little transmutation – then that is > the huge benefit of Holmlid’s work. > > >
