On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote:
This suggests that something nuclear is happening in the branch of the > reaction that results in the ejection of the 6 MeV proton to supply the > proton with its 6 MeV of energy. > The impression I've taken away from what I've read of Piantelli's papers is that he's seeing fast protons and wants to explain them on some level. The approach he takes is to my mind pretty hand-wavy and reminds me of the cartoon of the two scientists looking at a blackboard, with the step "then a miracle occurs" sitting between the initial equations and the conclusion. His explanation seems to go beyond the empirical evidence to make assumptions about what's happening in a pretty detailed way. Assuming there are fast protons, my questions are these: - How many are there in the range of 6 MeV? Are they sporadic and intermittent? Or are there a large number? - Are they correlated with any excess heat? - Are they commensurate with any excess heat? If the answer to the first question is that there are some fast protons that are seen in an NiH system, or perhaps quite a few, it might be good to work backwards from known and plausible reactions; e.g., a proton being stripped off of a deuterium nucleus and hopping over to the lattice site. This and perhaps other reactions would generate protons in the MeV range. The hard part would be explaining what might be leading to this or a similar reaction. Eric
