fusion dilution should read fusion delusion On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Holmlid is currently suffering from the fusion dilution. He wants the > hydrogen atoms to be very close together "Ultra dense" because it fits in > with the theory that atoms that are close together will fuse. > > Just like the fusion delusion of P&F, the LENR mechanism has nothing to do > with ordinary fusion. Holmlid is chasing a wild goose. > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Jones, your description below about metallic hydrogen stimulates me to >> wonder about atoms, molecules, particles, and condensed matter. Obviously >> a single atom of H is not metallic hydrogen. A single molecule of hydrogen >> is more "dense" than the H/D(1) species of Rydberg matter. I don't think >> anyone would categorize an ordinary H2 molecule as metallic or condensed >> matter. The X(1) species of Rydberg matter is shown to exist in particular >> for H/D and the alkali metals having commonly 7 or more atoms. Are these >> Rydberg clusters better described as large molecules? A small particle of >> metal? Generalized condensed matter? How do you ascribe mass density to >> something only one atomic layer thick? It is interesting to consider. >> >> The Rydberg matter "snowflakes" called X(1), where X is usually an alkali >> metal, are called Rydberg because the electron orbitals are highly excited >> Rydberg states in high order flattened (nearly planar) orbitals. The >> nuclear separation of H(1) is bigger than that for the H2 molecule. >> Existence for X(1) Rydberg matter particles (clusters, molecules) is well >> reproduced, modeled, measured, and is utilized by many based on the well >> described characteristics of the snowflakes obtained, in a large part, from >> rotational spectroscopy. >> >> The existence of Holmlid's ultra-dense form is not reproduced, and what >> form it might take is completely speculative. The evidence for it appears >> to be solely from the accelerated species found in supposed Coulomb >> Explosion (CE). Why is this species not be examined by conventional >> rotational spectroscopy, as has been used to verify the existence of the >> X(1) Rydberg matter? I would think that the comprising atoms could NOT be >> in a DDL state, because if they were, they would not be susceptible to >> photonic ionization (DDL states are supposed to have too little angular >> momentum to form a photon), which Holmlid claims causes CE and is his basis >> for the existence of the D(-1) / D(0) state of matter in the first place. >> Since the D(-1)=D(0) matter is supposedly susceptible to photo-ionization >> and CE, it seems like it should also be detectable in a rotational spectrum. >> >> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: >> >>> Fran - The only way Holmlid’s claims make sense is that the dense >>> hydrogen he describes is a more stable phase of hydrogen than metallic >>> hydrogen. This means it is a phase or isomer which does not require extreme >>> containment. >>> >>> >>> >>> For instance, we know that alloys with alkali metals will lower the >>> pressure requirements for metallic hydrogen by 400%. In the case of the >>> Holmlid phase, which I still call DDL until it is shown to be different, >>> the species could be stable without any pressure or with slight containment. >>> >> >
