On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
If you look in the archives, “stripping” was favored by me for many years, > and I first introduced it here - but opinions change. The first reference I saw to the OP process was from a thread between you and Abd Lomax, in 2010, in which you appeared to have introduced the possibility. In these posts I give credit to you: https://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg92455.html https://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg92381.html > If the gain is QM based – which is to say a type of nuclear tunneling > which is different than electron tunneling in semiconductors, then bosons > are highly favored to begin with. Right now I like neutron stripping and the OP process. In the past, in approximate chronological order, I've argued for a kind of nano-Polywell; an ill-conceived dipolariton-based bosonic fusion; Widom-Larsen; p+d fusion in nickel without thought given to the gammas; hidden d+d fusion and Pd-attenuated gammas; deuteron and/or proton capture in nickel; non-equilibrium disruption of the electronic structure of the metal and attending Coulomb screening; d+d fusion through z-pinch in electric arcs together with a new kind of electromagnetic channel that short-circuits the formation of gammas; and now OP and neutron stripping. As I learn more about the relevant physics and see insurmountable problems, I'm willing to switch to a new hypothesis. (I continue to take seriously some of the more recent thought experiments even as I give attention to OP + neutron stripping in the context of nickel.) In this particular case it's not so much about arguing against something that is "QM" based, in which spin is central, in favor of neutron stripping. I'm addressing an objection you raised earlier on in this thread: Note that stripping is closer to brute force thermodynamics, and unlikely > to happen in condensed matter. I'm saying that the same objection applies to the bosonic deuteron capture reaction that you've proposed, because the neutron, as you have clarified, will only screen at short distances. Eric
