On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:36 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: The emphasis I think should be placed on the word "opposite". IOW one might > expect the result to be "opposite" as well. >
True. I suspect it will be hard to get much further insight into the matter at the level of physical argumentation. I came upon the suggestion because it provides a nice explanation for results like those of Iwamura as being successive alpha captures. In his case, only two or three captures are needed to get from strontium to molybdenum, cesium to praseodymium, or barium to samarium. Successive alpha captures seem like a reasonable hypothesis if there are lots of alpha particles being emitted under induced decay. In addition, there's something in the LENR transmutation experiments that seems to be fragmenting heavier nuclei such as palladium. It would not be surprising to me if this kind of thing is the result of a botched alpha capture. Eric
