-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] >In short, just like with the Hagelstein hypothesis, we are not dealing with merely an alternative route to shed high energy - but instead - to an exclusive alternative....
>>As I see it, the only way any alternative can be exclusive is if the cause and effect are coupled. E.g. a situation arises where the reaction can only happen if the spin coupling channel is available.... IOW the availability of the channel is what makes the reaction possible in the first place. (QM does appear to work this way, i.e. the probability of a reaction occurring is linked to the possible result of the reaction.) That's a good point, Robin - if indeed a certain kind of QM nuclear tunneling works exclusively for a particular reaction pathway. I cannot think of a relevant example of this; and since QM is generally related to probabilities instead of absolutes, any example would be helpful. The closest thing that comes to mind is bandgap tunneling of electrons in semiconductors, but there is only one successful result there. Well, there is also a possible analogy of the QM depletion zone, which might arise in a combined type of Millsean-LENR situation, such that the "makeup" nuclear reaction only occurs in a severely energy depleted zone (due to relatively large zones of orbital redundancy being brought back up to equilibrium by time-reversed fusion reaction.) Jones
