Well, Robin - this appears to be neither actual neutrino pair production (as opposed to cosmological theory), nor relevant to LENR, since it is hypothetical pair production in collapsing stars... therefore, IMHO - nothing has changed and it still requires a major miracle to suggest that that virtual neutrons, derived from f/H - can happen routinely, or even at all, in LENR.
Why go that far? If we are counting miracles, and trying to "conserve" them <g> then Mills' theory alone can account for the excess heat with only one miracle... redundant ground states. OK maybe two or three but anyway, there is no proof of nickel transmutation in relative proportionality. It is almost a non-issue. Then there is Piantelli, who claims to show RXF evidence of transmutation elements together with excess heat. There are low counts of these, and when extrapolated to surface area and time - could be a hundred-thousand times too low to account for the excess heat. Even if real - this is arguably a minor phenomenon which did not show up in the Thermacore nickel, which produced excess heat for a year and was tested with the same technique. In short, these trace elements can be written-off as a QM tunneling by-product of a dominant reaction, which does not leave much transmutation. 99.9999% of excess heat must be coming from elsewhere. -----Original Message----- From: mix...@bigpond.com >Can you provide any citation for neutrino-antineutrino pair production in >actuality? If so, then there should have an associated energy ... http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269306005351 http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&cad=rja&ve d=0CFQQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fadsabs.harvard.edu%2Ffull%2F1967ApJ...150..979B &ei=xnZOUd6JCcitiAfx74GoAg&usg=AFQjCNF1gCDTJqH6iYKaz7_hYuFNOISOdg&bvm=bv.441 58598,d.aGc http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CGAQF jAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Flss.fnal.gov%2Farchive%2Fother%2Fiu-ntc-92-12.pdf&ei=xn ZOUd6JCcitiAfx74GoAg&usg=AFQjCNHs6wvnhA6omkD1ectAIpGI0Kqzkw&bvm=bv.44158598, d.aGc&cad=rja http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=14&cad=rja&v ed=0CD8QFjADOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.science.gov%2Ftopicpages%2Fn%2Fneutrino %2Bpair%2Bemission.html&ei=MXpOUf6YLvCviQfTzIGQCQ&usg=AFQjCNFeG8ewjfyOVglxWB RTaiqnWw-j-w&bvm=bv.44158598,d.aGc [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
