Ed
The electron can not leave the nucleus for even a brief time,
thus no covalent attraction is possible.
...methinks you are just trying to get rid of these critters (but
by gravity instead of the normal levity ;-)
Covalent bonding is indeed seemingly impossible with any other
element than another hydrino, one can suspect that much - BUT
there is such a strong preference for the interlocking wave
functions of two bound electrons that I think a paring of hydrinos
is almost a foregone conclusion in QM terms.
The classic case of covalent bonding, where the hydrogen molecule
forms by the overlap of the wavefunctions of the electrons of the
respective hydrogen atoms in an interaction which is characterized
as an exchange interaction, is surprisingly strong. Why would this
change with a smaller radius? In fact the interchange bonding
should make this molecule almost like a helium nulceus, only with
stronger bonding. Once the Hy2 forms it is going to take a very
high energy photon to ionize it.
That would definitely bolster your view that the liquid state is
unlikely.
Perhaps you are correct on that point about no liquid phase, and
that does seems to be the majority opinion - but I think the
pairing to di-hydrino is inevitable. And the potential
density-equalent is there, even in a gas, and it might have low
comparative mobility - if QM wavefunctions are applicable at that
geometry, and since the Hy pair will be comparatively small, dense
and slow - plus according to Mills, will have a positive near
field ! then they would tend to lodge in the orbitals of whatever
cation is available, no? But this is NOT Mills' version of events
exactly.
Come to think of it - maybe Mills got that part slightly wrong and
what we have is always the di-hydride instead of the hydride?
Perhaps that is part of the reason that sodium isn't a catalyst
(its wavefunction interaction does not fit with the Hy2 ?). Hmm.
Jones
BTW - since several Hy2 molecules, if they do express a positive
near field, should be able to be bound with a single electron
that would seem to open up the prospect of charged dense
strucutre - like the buckyball or icosohedron... yet the charge is
hidden. Is one of these the nucleating agent for an EVOs ?
