-----Original Message----- From: mix...@bigpond.com > I wasn't implying that "Isomer energy" violated CoE. I was referring to your statement that the whole process would be 'double exotherm' which I took to mean that both the creation and destruction of the isomer would yield energy.
Obviously, Robin - with anything so fundamentally at odds with the mainstream understanding of nuclear energy, as the Rossi device is (assuming it is real) the details will need to be fleshed out over time. This is only the beginning of a rough attempt to do that. The easiest way that I can explain how this can happen, in terms of ZPE theory and not having access to important details from Rossi, is to assume that an already unstable nucleus such as Te-123 or Te-125 or Zr-96 in the case of Arata/etc can absorb a virtual photon and release a real photon. This would be similar to fluorescence except involving the zero point field. > I must admit that the whole process you are describing is as clear as mud to me. Well, thanks for the input anyway, and I hope to make this clearer over time. or else abandon it, if it does not stand up to criticism. Hey - that's what this forum is about, no? > Specifically, where does the energy come from at each step of the process, and what are the steps for that matter? Here is the way it looks now, stepwise, in trying to recreate the sequence which is needed to get excess energy. 1) Hydrogen is converted to spillover (endothermic) 2) Spillover accumulates in Casimir Pits or cavities (neutral) 3) At a trigger temperature level, in the range of 250-350 C, IR heat is absorbed and re-emitted by the pycno in the surface cavities sequentially, with an asymmetry due to the Lamb shift (gainful), or due to relativistic effects 4) There would be a transitory net gain from steps 1-3, from the zero point field for a short time (sub second) w/o a source to replenish ZPF; but a net loss (endotherm) is expected when run for a longer periods with no metastable "fuel" (which is an expected Casimir cooling effect) 5) Any energy deficit in the ZPF stimulates decay from metastable nuclei, since part of their inherent stability is via virtual photons which are absent. 6) These metastable nuclei begin to decay at accelerated rates leading to an enhanced "correlation field" which develops over time so that a different kind of chain reaction is seen. This is the intangible 'criticality' level. 7) Much of the radiation couples to the ZPF to restore the energy balance from gain derived from ZPE 'pumping' (#3 above) 8) Net gain can be seen in 3-space when everything is properly engineered so that the "correlation field" is above a threshold of critical accumulation, and the energy of metastable nuclei is released above the lowest stimulus level. 9) The gain per metastable atom is at least ~100,000 times chemical but far less than fission or fusion - and the only ash seen is in a change isotope ratio of the tellurium (or other metastable fuel) with occasionally nuclear transmutations due to the small proportion of high energy photons that do not couple to the ZPF but end up in 3-space instead. 10) The purpose of the nano-nickel is solely as a spillover catalyst. IOW Rossi himself got the roles completely reversed and his "catalyst" is the fuel, whereas his fuel (nano nickel) is the catalyst. How is that for slightly "clearer than mud" ? :-) Jones
