Russ George wrote:
The devil is in the details. The presence of helium but absence of tritium if ‘muon catalyzed fusion’ is present is a puzzling. Unless the channel is potently redirected to 4He which coherent behavior might allow for.
This is why I brought up Takahashi and his TSC (Tetrahedral Symmetric Condensate) theory. It provides an alternative viewpoint for fusion in non-plasma conditions - which can be modified to fit the Holmlid results.
Takahashi has actually written a paper on the different branching hdelium ratio which is expected from the multi-body reaction and the lack of tritium. The main problem of course is that he is not dealing with the dense deuterium isomer, which (if Holmlid is correct) has its own unique branching ratio. However, it can be expected that a version of TSC could be adapted to explain this. That paper is here:
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/TakahashiAheheproduc.pdf
