--- OrionWorks wrote: > Asimov in one of his puckish essays on the laws of > probability and statistics discussed the chances of > all the molecules in a room suddenly finding > themselves all bunched up in a corner.
This is presumably not that kind of situation, Steven. In a tungsten cathode you get actual hydriding - so there is no need to resort to statistical sleight of hand. Plus ! there is something very unique about tungsten hydriding. W has 6 oxidation states and is the only metal in the periodic table in which the hydride can exist in 5 different bonding states of various energy. When these states are rapidly altered or oscillated, then, *recalescence* will be poised to occur. This normally gives only say 1/100 th of an eV of gain per atom. However, IF, the Casimir force intervenes, as it should at these geometric dimensions, then one does not need to resort to LENR to explain this. Unless of course the temperature gain of recalescence is what triggers the LENR. I actually like the Casimir/ZPE explanation better, in terms of Ockham and especialy since Mizuno has seen this kind of gain with plain vanilla hydrogen. What the Casimir/ZPE explanation would amount to is that because the tungsten lattice is vibrating in the terahertz range, in any period of only one second, it might arguably be possible to cohere several eV of net energy from ZPE per proton/deuteron IF the different phase changes are additive, due to Casimir (beta-aether) pressure being able to punch the expansion back down. Notice that this is somewhat similar to Horace's AEH, and the two concepts may have overlap. Since HH did not mention this, perhaps he does not think AEH is applicable. But I believe that Casimir/ZPE provides the best explanation for the range of Mizuno's experiments with tungsten going back many years. All I can say is that NO WAY is this only a hydrogen-only explosion - IF Dr. Mizuno has supplied us with accurate information. Hydrogen in the headspace would have exploded in less than 3 seconds at this rate of temperature gain - and the water would never have had the chance to heat up. There is zero doubt about that (given accurate inforamtion) Jones
