It's been suggested that heavy electrons may accelerate fusion in metals. In "Intense focusing of light using metals" - JB Pendry (p. 9) -- http://www.cmth.ph.ic.ac.uk/photonics/Newphotonics/pdf/pendry_crete.pdf -- states that the effective mass of heavy electrons can equal the mass of a nitrogen atom in thin wire lattices, and possibly more by adjusting wire radius and lattice spacing.
Can super-focusing of IR E-M in metal lattices or nano-particles also achieve this? Can these vey heavy electrons behave like muons, and catalyze fusion reactions like proton + deuteron --> helium-3 + gamma ? or others? Comments appreciated, Lou Pagnucco
