An earlier, easier to read paper -- "Low-energy nuclear reactions and the leptonic monopole" by Georges Lochak, Leonid Urutskoev http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LochakGlowenergyn.pdf
-- gives more graphics on the experimental set up. The authors claim the effect is robust, repeatable and seems to be a bulk phenomenon as opposed to a surface one. Isotopic changes even appear in large fissile atoms which lead the authors to search for quite elaborate fission-fusion combinations to explain the missing radiation and neutron emissions. Apparently, in a section written by the second author (Urutskoev) they speculate why this finding is ignored: "One might ask: If Lochaks theory is correct, why has it garnered so little interest for twenty years? The answer is obvious. French physicists are deeply convinced that all genuine physical theories can only be developed outside France. Other physicists usually do not read scientific publications in French. Because of that Lochaks works are not known to academics. A more profound reason is that the Standard Model does not need the leptonic magnetic monopole. Today's physics are dominated by the dictatorship of democracy. Let us explain that using a simple example. About five years ago a CERN paper was published which had around 600 authors. The list of authors was longer than the article itself. As to the authors of the present report, we believe that a new idea may come to one head or at most two heads, but in no way to 600 heads at the same time. Bearing in mind that theorists and experimentalists tend to consider the Standard Model impeccable (something like a holy icon), you will understand the attitude to Lochaks theory." One interesting excerpt from the original arxiv.org paper cited below is: "... several remarkable effects : 1) The appearance of an astonishingly stable lightning ball (50 times the duration of the discharge) with a very complex optical spectrum, showing the rays of various chemical elements, many of which were initially absent from the laboratory installation ..." One earlier Russian paper - "Development of Atomic and Nuclear Processes in a Laser-Produced Plasma" http://www.maik.ru/full/lasphys/98/2/lasphys2_98p438full.pdf - suggests that intense laser beams (> 3.4 X 10^16 W/cm^2) may knock inner shell electrons into atomic nuclei making them neutron-rich isotopes with hard to predict results. Is it possible the "lightning ball" was due to some unusual localized lasing effect leading to the theorized isotopic changes? - Lou Pagnucco Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint wrote: > Equation for Light Leptonic Magnetic Monopole and its Experimental Aspects > > Georges Lochak > > http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2752 > > > > An excerpt from the Abstract: > > "Our monopoles are magnetically excited neutrinos, which leads to > experimental consequences. These monopoles are assumed to be produced by > electromagnetic pulses or arcs, leading to *nuclear transmutations* and, > for > beta radioactive elements, a shortening of the life time and the emission > of > monopoles instead of neutrinos in a magnetic field." > > > > In summary, they performed experiments of electrical discharges under > water > with Titanium foil (and other foils), and found that only 48Ti to be > anomalously depleted in the 'ash', but that there were numerous other > elements found; little if any excess heat, and no energetic > particles/emissions. Seems that this experimental method strongly favors > the > transmutation pathway over all others (i.e., thermal, nuclear (strong > force)). > > > > -Mark > > > >
