From: Bob Higgins
* It sounds like my understanding of IRH is wrong and I need to find the
source of the description.
My understanding is based on two papers that need to be read together as each
has part of the picture. Both seem incomplete to me. The main one is Lawandy,
which describes like-charge attraction as having Cooper pairing with larger
accumulations as also paired - thus we are always dealing with bosons. A
dielectric is required. Deuterium is favored over H, but both are technically
bosonic - being paired.
www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LawandyNMinteractio.pdf
The other paper is
www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MileyGHclusterswi.pdf
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However, as mentioned, Holmlid has backed away from this terminology in part,
and does not use the “inverted” term any more. Big mistake, IMO. This is NOT
Rydberg matter by definition, and as Miley says, this is an inverted state,
which has different features where the negative charge in entrained in the
support and not some kind of vague halo.
In short, like Plato’s cave, everyone sees what they want to see and we have a
semantics problem which is deeply rooted. The import factors are charge
separation, cluster density and a condensate at elevated temperatures. But both
views favor deuterons - since it is classic consdensate phenomenon and AFAIK
the best results are with deuterium.
Quote: “Known from space chemistry: New catalytic generation of deuterium
clusters in surface defects of iron oxide. Emission of clusters and laser
irradiation confirms binding energy of 620 eV and distance between deuterons of
d= 2.3 pm… They are saying this is a known phenomenon at low temperature, which
adds some credibility, but it does not fit the strict definition of RM, so why
not call it IRH?
BTW, the binding energy alone is huge – and sufficient to prove that all of the
excess energy ever seen in LENR can be non-nuclear, so long as achieving the
IRH state requires less energy… which begs the question of the ultimate source
of gain, if it is non-nuclear.
