Hi Bob I think you are right about factors out side the nucleus being of great importance.
I was wondering if the data from these transmutations and isotopic shifts could tell us something independent of any theory about the nucleus. For example if the observed data requires particular states to form and if this could tell us something about the environment or processes external to the nucleus itself. I guess much of this has already been considered by many.l though. So probably I should read a bit more too ;) Sent from my iPhone On 16 Sep 2016, at 17:12, Bob Higgins <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Actually what you describe has already happened. Norman Cook himself is weighing in on a theory of LENR. However, I don't think it is that simple. Dr. Cook is well versed at what happens inside the nucleus, but the LENR phenomenon is bigger than that - it needs a condensed matter physicist also versed in nuclear physics. Now the field narrows. Even then, there is probably the need for introduction of new physical phenomena that are not recognized or understood today - perhaps the ignored negative solutions to Dirac's equation that were swept under the rug by Feynman. Looking simply at the nuclear physics end alone is like saying that LENR is related to hot fusion, wherein only the two fusing nuclei are the domain of the problem because they are isolated when they react. That is why LENR is reported in the Journal of "Condensed Matter Nuclear Science" - a science that embodies nuclear science and also condensed matter (solids). On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Stephen Cooke <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Actually it would be interesting to give this data to an expert on nuclear physics who has no bias one way or other about LENR and see what he comes up with as an explanation.
