How do these theories explain a 100 micro nickel particle that is almost pure Ni62? The key to the correct LENR theory is through an explanation of that particle.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 3:24 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > I realize what you meant, but during normal decay reactions, the energy is >> not shared with an ensemble of electrons, so why would this case be special? >> > > I'm not really sure. There's just enough of doubt on my part about the > applicability of known behavior to this specific situation that I don't > write off the possibility. > > Here are some potential explanations: > > - In the case of a short-lived nuclear transition yielding a gamma > that occurs from the rearranging of nucleons, the nucleons reside in a > field of strong positive charge, despite the presence of an electron cloud > (I suspect). Perhaps the charge density has to be negative or strongly > negative for a gamma-yielding transition to short-circuit to nearby > electrons. > > - Maybe when it comes to gamma-yielding transitions, there is more > natural activity than we think there is, and a lot of the transitions are > short-circuited in the proposed manner, leading to heat rather than > gammas. As observers outside of the system, we see only those gammas that > escape for some reason. > > - Maybe there is a qualitative a difference between metastable > transitions, which take a while to occur, and that of an extremely > short-lived resonance like a [dd]* pair. The faster the transition, the > more likely it is to short-circuit. Because we generally study dd fusions > in a plasma system, this skews the data we have to work with, because there > are few electrons nearby. (In cases where a dd fusion occurs during > thin-foil ion bombardment, there is an anomalous screening effect.) > > - Perhaps the circumstances of the production of the alphas are a > little different than simple fusion in the vicinity of lattice sites; for > example, if there is electric arcing which is drawing the precursors near > one another (which may or may not be d+d), the arc in conjunction with the > electron cloud may provide a different environment than is witnessed in > other contexts. > > Eric > >
