Eureka is actually up the coast a few miles, a long way from Padua, and I
may still be south of my destination. or else in a traffic jam on the
outskirts. Below is the flash of insight which may illuminate the way
through the fog, so long as one does not get sidetracked along the Mendocino
coast.
1) Everything reported in LENR experiments can be adequately explained
as a multistep process in a two-dimensional "goldilocks" systems (not too
hot and not too cold) in which the key operative role is played by
fractionalization of hydrogen (including fractional deuterium) and at least
one other low mass atom, as well as the corresponding fractionalization of
electrons, followed by 2D nuclear reactions. Quantum mechanics is fully
implemented and the Mills theory does NOT apply but he should be credited
for popularizing "fractionalization".
2) The active species will be designated as f/H, f/D, or f/Li for the
uncharged version of the main reactants hydrogen, deuterium and lithium. The
hydrogen species, at low levels of redundancy, will always try to bond with
a second electron as a stable charged ion, designated (f/H^-) or (f/D^-) -
in which reaction, most of the excess energy goes to the charge
fractionalization of the two electrons. In contrast, fractional lithium is
(f/Li^+) is always a positive ion, with two FQHE electrons. There can be
little excess heat derived from this type of fractionalization.
Fractionalization of electrons is endothermic as net charge disappears.
3) Notably different from Mills theory is that both electrons in the
f/H ion intrinsically become FQHE electrons, and all subsequent reactions
are statistically happening in two dimensional only. The fractional quantum
Hall effect electrons exist at equal fractional values of e^2/h and the net
negative charge of either species is typically 1/3 greater for the pair than
the elementary electron charge. The species (possibly) obeys anyonic
statistics.
4) When 2D (two dimensional) fusion is seen in LENR, as it will be if
there is excess heat, the fusion involves only the fractional ions which are
depleted in energy and attracted to a positive nucleus, such as the lithium
nucleus. Lithium is the prime candidate for fusion in the fractional form
(f/Li^+) since unlike its hydrogen counterpart, it is always net positive-
both the near field and the nucleus.
5) The lack of high energy radiation seen in LENR is a direct result of
prior energy-depletion, FQHE electron regauging, and mostly related to the
2D nature of energy release - which would be restricted to the two
dimensional surface of the active layer.
6) The reason that the "dogbone" reactor is an effective vehicle for
this type of reaction is lithium mobility and the fact that this element is
easily fractionalized into mutually repelling atoms, which plate out onto
the interior surface of the alumina tube. The interior surface is the 2D
reaction zone, and that is why too much lithium cannot be used - a layer of
single atoms is necessary.
7) This is 2D mechanics can be called a version of the whispering
gallery mode (thanks to Axil for initiating this thread:
https://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg83756.html
More later . when I get this funny GPS to work again. It's acting like we
are in a time warp.
Jones
