Jones: These are brilliant insights. It will take me a while to absorb it before I can comment. Keep up the good work.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > The following is a compilation and revision of several tentative concepts > introduced last week which present an unusual explanation for the Rossi > effect -- as being a Higgs-mediated nucleon exchange reaction. > > Without accepting Kullander's findings from 2013 as accurate, this > hypothesis would appear to be completely bizarre and not worth repeating > (except for those surprising details). That is the key. But if his finding > is close to accurate, as strange as it may sound, the Rossi effect may be > the first known instance of the Higgs particle showing up as a useful > construct in a real-world reaction. "Strange is as strange does" and we > could be talking about a strange proton being a catalyst, or else a Higgs > shadow from another dimension. > > To backtrack, the details which led to this hypothesis are: > > Ny Teknik: What results have you obtained from the analyses? > > Kullander: ... the used powder is different in that several elements are > present, mainly 10 percent copper and 11 percent iron. The isotopic > analysis > through ICP-MS doesn't show any deviation from the natural isotopic > composition of nickel and copper. [the starting powder was only nickel] > > When this information came out, it was largely ignored as being > incompatible > with any known nuclear reaction. The most obvious problem is that nickel > has > 5 isotopes and copper only 2. If the ratio stays the same in both, in the > initial reactant compared to the nuclear ash, then we are presented with > the > predicament that each nickel isotope would be consumed in the same > proportion, and yet these 5 are converted into the two main copper > isotopes, > which also stay in the same natural ratio. > > On the surface, that cannot happen, since over 2/3 of natural Ni is Ni-58 > and 2/3 of copper is Cu-63. This would mean that in most cases involving > fusion of hydrogen and nickel - 5 protons must be fused into each nickel > atom at the same time and then 4 of them must undergo EC or positron decay > at the exact same time to form the required extra neutrons... and so on. > This is too improbable to even consider. > > Yet on closer examination, it is remotely possible to make a case for the > nickel nucleons (balancing out) in a previously unknown kind of reaction > where the ratio of the main two isotopes of copper and nickel are in a > similar natural proportion. As for the balance of other isotopes (and due > to > the complexity of the situation) the other isotopes are not being > considered > for now, pending confirmation of the exact ratios in the upcoming TIP > report > (and the vetting on this particular hypothesis). > > Given that Kullander did not note that the iron was in a natural ratio, we > can assume that he has left open the door for a proton and two Ni-58 nuclei > to participate in a novel nucleon exchange reaction, which could give > results which at least make a putative case for retention of a natural > ratio > in the main isotopes. This would assume that almost all of the iron found > was Fe-54. The magic number of nucleons in the exchange then becomes 117. > > Two Ni-58 plus a "proton" is 117 nucleons; and one Cu-63 plus one Fe-54 is > the same. The further implication is that some kind of shuffle of nucleons > is possible - where the most import parameter is the net number of > nucleons. > The normal proton typically would not benefit this nucleon exchange > reaction > but it could be strange, in many ways, including "uus." > > A nucleon exchange reaction? Well, this not unheard of, and the > Oppenheimer-Phillips reaction is the simple version. It takes a lot of > imagination to go any further than that, but there is a growing list of > "strange" repercussions to a Higgs particle at 126 GeV. Wen-Lin at > University of Washington has an interesting presentation: "Beyond the > Standard Model ...." which includes the "strange proton" and strangeness in > the Lattice. But most of these speculations involve large energy collisions > and a "tale of two scales." > > http://web.mit.edu/panic11/talks/monday/PARALLEL-1G/4-1430/lin/337-0-hwlin_p > anic11-v1s-c.pdf > > The Rossi effect, if Kullander is correct, could be described as the low > energy version of LHC ! Whether or not a strange proton is needed as a > catalyst is another issue, but there are alluring factors to make this > hypothesis somewhat presentable even at this early stage. After all, the > Higgs "particle" is more of an energy-sink than a real particle, based on > the way it was discovered and documented. The Higgs has the features of a > quanta of energy which is absorbed in an adjoining dimension as a > stabilizing mechanism or energy sink. In that role, perhaps a low energy > version is indeed available. > > The putative mass energy of the Higgs is 126 GeV which is larger than 117 > nucleons, but possibly within a working range of resonance. The further > hypothesis for why this happens in the Rossi effect is that the Higgs > quanta > is mirrored into 3-space by a mechanism related to the very high nuclear > stability of nickel, and that it forms a kind of ghostly shadow on the > reactants, resulting in nucleon exchange. Nucleon exchange has been > documented at relatively "low energy" in the collision of α-particles with > lithium, but this was still in the few MeV range (instead of the 100 MeV > range) but it seems that the nucleon exchange field is new enough that no > one has ever considered nickel as a target, due to it extremely nuclear > stability. > > Perhaps nuclear stability actually promotes nucleon exchange? You never > know > till you try. > > Speaking of the strange proton as a possible catalyst, it turns out that we > were exposed to that possibility years ago by Horace Heffner in his > deflation fusion model. That mention was prescient, but possibly a bit > ahead > of its time, since no one knows what this particle does. A strange proton > (u,u,s) has two up quarks and a strange quark. A substitution of a strange > quark for the down quark has a mass of 1189 MeV and sometimes called a Σ+ > particle. It could find a home in LENR in a number of guises. > > In the end, all of this wild hypothesis will await more detailed > information > from isotopic analysis, but there is an allure to the possibility that the > Rossi reaction begins with a proton going "strange" or "rogue" :-) and then > becoming a catalyst for a nucleon exchange reaction as it performs the > unthinkable - bringing two Ni-58 atoms together. The Higgs can serve two > roles, even if it never leaves reciprocal space. > > "Beauty is as beauty does" morphing into "strange is as strange does" ... > meaning that there is a certain amount of beauty in finding that not only > was Kullander's oft-maligned finding correct, but that the impossible > isotope ration offers a hidden clue which could open up our understanding > of > the entire field. > > > > > > >
