Eric, If your description of the process is accurate then one must assume that the nucleons become attracted and bound to each other as the fusion progresses. This must be true because it will take energy equal to that which is radiated in order to tear them apart again.
Perhaps the extreme magnetic field that many are speculating about is able to confine the nucleons and one or more electrons in such a manner that this can occur in 1 dimension. I can imagine that a large magnetic field working along with the standard electric fields would be capable of restricting the electron positioned between the various active hydrogen nuclei. Think some form of crossed field device sort of like a magnetron. Those electrons that are aligned with the proton's electric field lines and the external magnetic field lines move easily while those at right angles are retarded. Maybe we need a cookbook of how to make proton stew. :-) Dave -----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, May 17, 2014 10:15 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: I agree, however I think the claim was that they do lose a significant portion of their own mass, though I'm not at all clear on how that is supposed to happen. This is how I understand Ed's theory. The mass-energy that is converted to low energy photons is from the nucleons themselves, as they slowly fuse into either 4He or D. The process is supposed to occur gradually, somehow. The image I had was of the nucleons slowly sliding together along a single dimension and yielding mass as they go in the form of photons. (This obviously sets aside the usual considerations about the strong force and coulomb repulsion.) I don't think Ed was necessarily claiming that the method of energy loss was through conversion of electron mass. In fact I didn't notice any explanation at all. I don't recall a specific explanation for this particular step, either, except that Ed believes the behavior of the nuclei within the hydroton to be a completely different from that in normal fusion, made possible by the unique context of the "nuclear-active environment." Eric
