On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The most flexible explanation of the LENR reaction is one that entails a > powerful bolt of energy impacting on an unspecified but variable pile of > atoms that result in any sort of recombination of any number of protons and > neutrons coming back together. ... This powerful bolt of energy would > supply the power to permit endothermic nuclear processes to proceed. ... > LENR is more like an atom smasher then a tokomak. > This is a detail worth thinking about, since the transmutations are all over the map. If nuclear reactions are the main show, as is my guess, the strong force is no doubt involved. When the strong force is involved, it is difficult to contemplate an pathway that does not end in an abrupt tunneling of some kind, even if you miraculously step things down significantly beforehand. In a nuclear reaction, there's going to be an abrupt transition. So my guess is that there's good old-fashioned beam collisions occurring, with every ambient species getting mixed into the beam pathway, and the environment is different from a plasma in some important way: http://i.imgur.com/PoRGR7G.png The blue is a current of protons from one electrically insulated metal grain to another, undergoing z-pinch, which focuses it. I read a few days ago that a photon will not interact with a free electron; in order for a scattering to occur, there has to be an electromagnetic field present. I'm guessing that a strong electromagnetic field alters the usual branches dramatically. (I suppose there may be something nonnuclear going on along the lines that Jones suggests, which results in prompt emissions as a minor side channel. Less likely, perhaps years of transmutation studies are all in error and due to contamination. But I would not place my bets on these explanations.) Eric
