Correction: although the hydrogen molecule is not bosonic this should read although the hydrogen nucleus is not bosonic
The important thing in LENR - about hydrogen vis-à-vis deuterium has always seemed to be the ease of the D2 boson becoming locked into the same space with another of the same energy. This appears to strongly favor deuterium for some kind of bosonic fusion instability. However, think about it in detail in condensed matter molecular deuterium will have two electrons, two neutrons, and two protons - or fully six different entities per molecule, which need to all be at the same energy level 12 perfect matches NOT EASY. (since the electrons are still nominally bound) However, pycno-hydrogen (monatomic) will have only two to match the proton and electron. Yet, prior to recently there has been no way to build on that simplicity, even if it should be easier to match, energy-wise. This is because monatomic hydrogen is so hard to engineer in practice that some physicists call it illusory. But what if suddenly Arata shows us how you can achieve the H-boson monatomic state easily via spillover and then someone else takes that finding to the next level, where hydrogen is actually superior to deuterium in terms of bosonic energy matching if nanocavities are available. Is that what Rossi has done of late? If so it is probably inadvertent. His patent application has been rejected which was obviously going to happen as it was so poorly drafted. That often happens when the inventor gets so lucky that he has no clue as to what he has stumbled on . Jones From: Jones Beene Spillover hydrogen is a subset of adsorption spillover In the case catalytic or adsorbent systems where a metal species is dispersed upon a support (or carrier) material (often quasi-inert oxides, such as alumina or silica), it is possible for an adsorptive species to indirectly adsorb to the support surface under conditions where such adsorption is thermodynamically unfavorable SIDE NOTE thermodynamically unfavorable is not quite overunity in itself, but is interesting in the context of negative energy ( to be explained). The presence of the metal serves as a lower-energy pathway for gaseous species to first adsorb to the metal and then diffuse on the support surface. This is possible because the adsorbed species attains a lower energy state once it has adsorbed to the metal, thus lowering the activation barrier between the gas phase species and the support-adsorbed species. Hydrogen spillover is the most common example of adsorptive spillover. In the case of hydrogen, adsorption is most often accompanied with dissociation of molecular hydrogen (H2) to atomic hydrogen (H), followed by spillover of the hydrogen atoms. The spillover effect has been used to explain many observations in heterogeneous catalysis and adsorption (see, for example, Rozanov and Krylov 1997), and has been proposed as a means of efficient hydrogen storage. END of Wiki quote Why is this phenomenon related to LENR? and related could be an understatement ! Spillover could end up being the heart and soul of gas-phase LENR the missing link that finally cracks the case, so to speak. My thinking is that spillover is the precursor step to pychno or dense hydrogen (deuterium) and/or Rydberg matter. It could also be what Mills misidentifies as being below ground state. BTW although the hydrogen molecule is not bosonic the monatomic atom would be bosonic in principle - but catch-22 you seldom see it listed as such, because normally monatomic hydrogen has an extremely short lifetime - if indeed it is not an abstraction in normal chemistry. That is IF it is not first involved in the spillover/densification process. Being a boson can be all-important since bosons with the same energy can occupy the same place in space, and spillover gets them part of the way there. Next they need to lose kinetic energy to get to the same energy state. How can that happen? Well, I will save this next key detail for the next installment of Phrase of the Day: negative energy. Negative energy is colder than cold, and it is to be found in many mundane places notably the Casimir Cavity. Or so it is claimed. Gene Mallove would be pleased, as it resonates with Fire from Ice. BTW if you havent seen it, here is his Memorial Website: <http://www.eugenemallove.org/> http://www.eugenemallove.org/ Jones
