Bob, I have cherry-picked three major “spin facts” from this compendium which indicate that if one wants to apply a nano-magnetism or spin-coupling modality to LENR, it is highly preferable to use deuterium, as opposed to hydrogen. That may be why Mizuno chose the deuterium-nickel combination. All eyes will be shifting to Mizuno in less than three weeks.
From: Bob Cook [snip] The deuteron, being an isospin singlet, is antisymmetric under nucleon exchange due to isospin, and therefore must be symmetric under the double exchange of their spin and location. Therefore it can be in either of the following two different states: Symmetric spin and symmetric under parity. In this case, the exchange of the two nucleons will multiply the deuterium wavefunction by (-1) from isospin exchange, (+1) from spin exchange and (+1) from parity (location exchange), for a total of (-1) as needed for antisymmetry…. In this case, the exchange of the two nucleons will multiply the deuterium wavefunction by (-1) from isospin exchange, (-1) from spin exchange and (-1) from parity (location exchange), again for a total of (-1) as needed for antisymmetry. [snip] …suggesting that there may be a way to stimulate the D via an electric quadrupole input signal. Also with a magnetic moment the D must respond to a magnetic field and fine tuning of an oscillating magnetic field may very well excite the D to flip up and down in the field. The composite particles of the D should have slightly different magnetic moments that can respond and create an "excited" state IMHO on a transient short lived time frame. However in a coherent system such a transient may be enough to cause other transitions of similar energy states to occur with mass energy being changed to angular momentum energy. The quadrupole input is a strong clue.
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