On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote:
OTOH, if even one electron was placed in a deep Dirac level, would it > enhance the possibility of electron capture reactions? How would we even > know if happened? Chemically, it would behave like the electron captured > element even without the capture. > Interesting questions and points. Perhaps electron capture would proceed quickly if there is overlap with the nucleus. In Mills's theory, specifically, this would not happen, because the orbits are said to be thin spheres rather than volumes, and so there would never be overlap, unless one takes the position that Mills's theory is a steady-state one and that something else might happen when there's a transition of some kind. I do not yet see a compelling need to resort to below-ground-state electron levels, myself, although I appreciate other people taking this route. In the context of LENR such theories have been proposed to explain evidence that I think can be accounted for through other means. Eric
