On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
http://iccf15.frascati.enea.it/ICCF15-PRESENTATIONS/S8_O2_Cook.pdf > > If you have nothing better to do this weekend, here is a 71 page paper > which Rossi says gives a correct explanation of gain with Ni-H. I do not > have the time, so the hope is to entice someone else to "chop wood" (Van > Morrison fans will appreciate this metaphor) > I am happy to take one for the team in this instance. These are interesting slides in which Norman D. Cook [1] gives an overview of the argument for his FCC nuclear structure model. He describes a nuclear structure in which the nucleons arrange in an FCC lattice, with layers of protons and neutrons sandwiched together, and, in larger nuclei, forming a diamond-like structure (see slide 46). Cook suggests his model does away with the need for long-range "effective" forces between nucleons and allows the nucleus to be understood entirely in terms of interactions between nearest neighbors. I do not know anything about Cook, but he appears to have published in some reputable journals. The slides were connected with ICCF 15, which looks like it took place in Rome in 2009. Cook contrasts his model with the independent particle model, the liquid drop model and the lattice model of the nucleus. There is almost no obvious connection to LENR. A slide at the very end suggests that his model explains why symmetrical daughters are produced in the fission of palladium at low energies, and at an earlier point he seems to be saying that there is a ~ 3 MeV magnetic attractive force between nearest neighbor nucleons. To be honest, I don't see an obvious connection to LENR, possibly apart from the magnetism bit. I'm not sure how Rossi feels himself to be in a position to assess the merit of Cook's theory or how it relates to LENR. Eric [1] http://www.res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp/~cook/
