This experiment could inform our thinking about the ultimate causation of the LENR reaction by remembering that charge concentration is a time honored contender as a factor in LENR.
If it is found that a fundamental constant is not actually constant but is in fact a function of charge concentration, then the possibility may open that the coulomb barrier could be lowered by charge concentration. The wavelength of a photon only has a few dependencies. The speed of light in vacuum and/or the magnetic permeability of the vacuum may change near a large concentration in charge. This could also explain the anomalous spectrographic results seen by Mills. He interpreted these anomalous results below the ground state as coming from electron orbitals outside of the fundamental constraints of quantum mechanics, but these results could well be caused by the effects that chemically induced charge concentration has on changing some fundamental physical constants. Cheers: Axil On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Harry Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: > NIST Experiments Challenge Fundamental Understanding of Electromagnetism > > From NIST Tech Beat: November 27, 2012 > > A cornerstone of physics may require a rethink if findings at the > National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are confirmed. > Recent experiments suggest* that the most rigorous predictions based > on the fundamental theory of electromagnetism—one of the four > fundamental forces in the universe, and harnessed in all electronic > devices—may not accurately account for the behavior of atoms in > exotic, highly charged states... > > http://www.nist.gov/pml/div684/ebit-112712.cfm > > > Harry > >
