On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:56 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint <zeropo...@charter.net>wrote:
“Electrons moving in certain solids can behave as if they are a thousand > times more massive than free electrons…” > In the matter of Widom and Larsen, some fun numbers: mass proton: 938 MeV mass electron: 511 MeV mass muon: 105.6 MeV (mass proton) / (mass electron): 1836.153 (mass proton) / (mass muon): 8.88 (mass proton) / (1000 * mass electron): 1.84 >From the Wikipedia article on muon-catalyzed fusion: "If a muon replaces one of the electrons in a hydrogen molecule, the nuclei are consequently drawn 207 times closer together than in a normal molecule." Maybe you don't need neutron formation -- I wonder if one of these heavy neutrons from the Nature article could replace an electron in a hydrogen atom and remain heavy. Would you then get something along the lines of Hydrinos without them being Hydrinos? Eric
