--- Frederick Sparber wrote: > This Austrian Article points out that Positronium > Anions Ps-e- exist.
Interesting. It would be tempting to say that this is just the kind of validation which we have been looking for regarding electronium - but on closer inspection... probably not. I think that we always "knew" that a minimally bound Ps ion would "exist" for some (very fleeting) length of time. After all, there is no reason for it not to exist for a few picoseconds... but what we really have been looking for, ultimately, is validation of a longer-lived bound state with *far* more than a fractional eV of binding energy - more like several tens or even a few hundred keV - ...plus an extended lifetime would seem to be a requirement for electronium being the key factor in catalyzing LENR ... ...although... maybe not - if it could be shown that in condensed matter (Pd matrix), a single rare D+D reaction of the QM variety does shed its enthalpy in the form of many of this kind of anion (and that is almost mainstream physics) then those short-lived Ps anions would certainly be available secondarily for an adequate length of time to catalyze many more locally. That is pretty much what we see in the SEMS images, isn't it... i.e. a robust local catastophic event, far more robust than a single fusion, but which doesn't spread very far. IOW an *extremely* rare QM tunneling reaction without any catalyst, to convert one D+D would serve as an "initiation" event leading to a string of other secondary local reactions, catalyzed by the short-lived electronium anion. BTW did Mizuno ever try to estimate how many nuclear reactions would be required to display the kind of tornado type pock-mark seen in those revealing images? ... the search goes on... Jones
