Axil and Mark— I do not believe superconductivity as such is important in LENR. As you and others have suggested the importance of the generation of plasmons SPP’s with their intense local B magnetic fields is the key effect IMHO. The resonant coupling created by the varying B field at the NAE metal lattice allows nuclear potential energy of a small number of nuclei—maybe only 1 or 2—to be transferred as phonic kinetic energy of the metal lattice. (No energetic EM or particles result since there is only conservation of angular momentum, spin energy, involved in the reaction. )
It may be that the “new physics” of LENR is the transfer of potential energy associated with then strong force to spin energy of particles forming part of a coherent system. Angular momentum is conserved in the system by the opposite polarization of particles forming the coherent system. This model assumesthe common identity of energy regardless of the form (energy fields) involved in its description. The original coherent system nearly survives the reaction with only a minor change in one or two of the nuclei. And the metal lattice of the new coherent system still is sufficient to support additional LENR reactions as the B magnetic field changes and creates a new coupling for additional nuclear transitions. IMHO temperature may also cause resonant conditions in a coherent system to allow LENR. The ambient magnetic field is necessary to quench the LENR through changing B firlds and corresponding resonant conditions. The following provides a fairly simple discussion of plasmons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_plasmon_resonance Bob Cook From: Axil Axil Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 9:22 PM To: vortex-l Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Reason why there are no dead grad students... I found another paper on Palladium/hydrogen superconductivity Sorry I am so late http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/464/46434607.pdf Magnetic and Transport Properties of PdH: Intriguing Superconductive Observations On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: Hi Mark, Your quotes from the citation brings to mind the mystery connection to HTSC (high temperature superconductivity). Since the early days there was thought to be some kind of vague and undefined connection between LENR and HTSC. This is due primarily to the fact that palladium hydride is superconductive but palladium isn't. The quote you mentioned adds an explanation in the form of lattice vibrations. The problem is the transition temperature. BTW - for those who are not aware of the history of this - Brian Ahern (who was a USAF researcher at the time, specializing in SC) independently discovered Pd-H superconductivity many years ago - only to find that it had already been reported by someone else (and patented). It is still ignored as a factor for gain in "cold fusion" due to the aforementioned problem of transition temperature. This is probably one of the details that got Brian hooked on LENR - even before P&F and he also discovered that an alloy of nickel and palladium performs much better than palladium alone for excess heat. For the heck of it, I did a quicky search to see if "nickel hydride" has ever been reported with SC properties. This begs to be part of the LENR-CANR library even if the rationale between LENR and HTSC is foggy. As it turns out - W-L also picked up on the cross-connection and found the same citation I found: Superconductivity in the palladium-hydrogen and palladium-nickel-hydrogen systems Authors - First published: 16 June 1972 by T. Skoskiewicz http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pssa.2210110253/abstract The paper is a poor scan, I am trying to find a digital version. This is almost 45 years old ! Why is it seldom mentioned? This is a fine blog article from EM Smith on the situation (which I had read but forgot), It is worth a reread. https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/widom-larsen-superconducting-hydrides-and-directed-speculation/ MarkI-ZeroPoint wrote: Vorts, Haven’t had time to do much sci-surfing in 2016, but as is quite common in my life, when I get a nagging feeling to do it, I come across stuff that could be very significant… Happened to go to physorg.com today when eating lunch at work and came across this article: “Laser pulses help scientists tease apart complex electron interactions” http://phys.org/news/2016-12-laser-pulses-scientists-complex-electron.html Title doesn’t really sound all that breakthrough, but for some reason I clicked on it and came across what could be the mechanism of action in LENR reactions which gently sheds the energy to the lattice instead of ejecting high-energy particles, i.e., the ‘expected’ mechanism. To quote the article: “But they also discovered another, unexpected signal-which they say represents a distinct form of extremely efficient energy loss at a particular energy level and timescale between the other two. "We see a very strong and peculiar interaction between the excited electrons and the lattice where the electrons are losing most of their energy very rapidly in a coherent, non-random way," Rameau said. At this special energy level, he explained, the electrons appear to be interacting with lattice atoms all vibrating at a particular frequency-like a tuning fork emitting a single note. When all of the electrons that have the energy required for this unique interaction have given up most of their energy, they start to cool down more slowly by hitting atoms more randomly without striking the "resonant" frequency, he said. "We know now that this interaction doesn't just switch on when the material becomes a superconductor; it's actually always there," Although electron-based and not nucleus-based, it still makes me wonder if this is one step in a multi-step process of energy transfer… nucleus to electrons to lattice. It is in a very narrow energy range, and is obviously some kind of resonance (coherent) condition… which also explains why it’s so hard to reproduce. Wonder if the narrow energy kink is anywhere close to FrankZ’s 1.094Mhz-meter? BTW, the research also used a setup which I’ve been ranting about for years… the electron stroboscope. "By varying the time between the 'pump' and 'probe' laser pulses we can build up a stroboscopic record of what happens - a movie of what this material looks like from rest through the violent interaction to how it settles back down," Merry Christmas to All, -mark iverson
