Worth noting - in the strange coincidences department (involving quantum spin) .
Think about the oft-referenced quantum spin experiment known as Stern-Gerlach. Silver vapor was used in the experiment. That's right, silver atoms were evaporated using an electric furnace in a vacuum. Why use silver to demonstrate quantum spin? There are dozens of other metals which could have been used with much lower boiling points (especially zinc) . Anyway, I'm not sure how relevant that factoid is to the subject of finding "common ground" between Mills/BLP and cold fusion, just as it is not clear that Fleishmann always recommended Type A palladium (with silver content of 23%). Or the fact that the chosen alloy from J-M was not meant to be exactly a 3-1 atomic ratio (75/25 instead of 77/23). Maybe being slightly off (in symmetry) makes the crystal structure prone to spin-enhancement in some way. These are some of the mysteries that adequate funding to LENR would have, and should have, discovered in the early nineties.. From: Bob Cook Jones-- In passing you noted the unusual high spin state of Ag-108m. A little extra spin (like that added by NMR machines to selected isotopes) may be enough to catalyze a nuclear reaction and transition of spin energy to other forms of kinetic energy in a multi-body entangled system.. This idea suggests that other quasi-stable isotopes because of their high spin may also act as a catalysts for LENR.
