Hi Bob, Cook proposes a inter-nuclear excitation path involving gamma radiation. Even though a energy pathway is required to get energy out of an excited nucleus into something else. Gamma EMF does not seem to be the correct pathway.
I think that the strong force carried by monopole magnetism would be the most direct way to transfer energy to the cause of the LENR reaction. There must be a pathway to setup a positive feedback between the cause of LENR and the nuclei that produce nuclear energy. The steps of the feedback might be as follows: first, set up a magnetic monopole path between the LENR cause and the affected nucleus, Next, a LENR reaction disrupts the nuclear process producing excess binding energy, next that energy is returned down the monopole magnetic pathway to the cause of LENR. The cause of LENR must radiate some amount of energy over time in the x-ray and XUV range to keep an energy balance within its internal energy storage mechanism bounded. This cause could leave the reactor and carry its energy store with it also. One cause of LENR is hydrogen Rydberg matter which is covered by a layer of SPPs and is superconductive. On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote: > Recent discussion of nuclear isomers has stimulated a chain of thought > that clearly points to holes in my understanding of isomers. From reading > in Norman Cook's book, I find that nuclear theory is in a quite primitive > state. It caused me to ask myself, "How are nuclear isomers determined?", > "How are isomers predicted?", and "How are the ultra-stable isomers > formed?". > > It strikes me that nuclear isomers must comprise a local minimum in the > energy state of the nucleus. This may be manifest as a lattice arrangement > of the nucleons having a low energy, but not the lattice arrangement having > the minimum energy. When the heavy elements form in stellar and nova > nucleosynthesis, one would expect all of the nuclear lattice states to be > populated - including all of the isomeric local minima in the lattice state > energy. If the energy difference between the nuclear ground state (lowest > energy lattice arrangement) and the isomeric state is low or the local > minimum is deep, then the isomeric state may have a half-life that is > greater than the age of the universe. This means that that the possibility > exists for large amounts of isomeric nuclei. > > How do we determine that an element's nucleus is an isomer or is in its > ground state? Chemically they would behave the same. We cannot > conveniently distill the atoms and look at the spectra of the total energy > of the nucleus very easily. Let me make a proposition (and please tell me > if this is easily falsifyable): > > - > *Many elements have large fractions of their nuclei in an > isomeric/non-ground state that is highly stable. * > > If this were true, instead of a fusion or transmutation, *could LENR be a > catalyzed transition of nuclei to a lower or ground state from a stable > isomeric state?* Could the introduction of hydrogen in close proximity > to a nucleus provide the dither or the "grease" to permit the transition of > the nucleus? Could transmutations sometimes occur during the transition of > the nucleus from its isomeric state, in proximity with such a hydrogen > catalyst? Could the the primary branch of such an isomeric transition be > low energy gamma that is predominantly absorbed in the apparatus? > > Note that every element having a different atomic mass, I.E a different > number of nucleons (for example each of the different isotopes of Ni) would > have a different set of isomeric states. Some isotopes may have stable > isomeric states while other isotopes may not. For that reason, some > isotopes of Ni may be found to be more energetic in catalyzed decay of > their isomers. > > This would seem to be a completely new avenue for explanation of LENR > without violation of known physics or introduction of exotica. It would > also be still a huge energy opportunity. > > Discussion? > > Bob Higgins >
