. . . The reviewer rejects the results based on nuclear theory; it is "not to be believed," but then proposes an alternative explanation that would violates even more fundamental chemical and physical theories. Constituents from the interior of the Pd could not have migrated to the surface because:
1. The gas was flowing the other way.
2. Bulk mass spectroscopy showed there are no such constituents.
3. The material that was originally on the surface disappears at the same rate the new material reappears.
5. The isotopes of the new material are unnatural, and the isotope shifts are exactly what you would expect when the missing material transmutes into the new material.
6. Since the old material disappears, if migration is the cause of the change, we have to postulate that starting material on the surface migrates downward, while the (non-existent) material migrates up.
Such explanations are mere handwaving, and they violate many more fundamental theories than cold fusion does.
- Jed
