Interesting factoids which link Mayer to Mills via the Compton
wavelength and Rydberg energy and dark matter. Ref: "Electromagnetic
Composites at the Compton Scale" Mayer and Reitz. This has not been
mentioned before, as far as I know, but combining some numbers we see:
136 * 27.2 eV = 3,699.2 eV (3.7 keV)
Contrast that with Meulenberg's
511 keV/137 = 3.7 keV
I'll come back to these numbers at the end but first, can we bury the
neutron? When one retreats to fundamental observations in
Nickel-hydrogen thermal anomalies, going back 27 years, there is almost
certainly no neutron involvement (either real, virtual, hopping, cold,
or ultra low momentum)... since after very long overunity runs (over one
year for Thermacore) there was zero neutron activation in the apparatus.
Neutron activation is easy to detect, even if few neutrons are emitted;
therefore, when there is absolutely no activation, why not acknowledge
the fact and drop the notion like hot potash? If we begin with the
premise of zero neutrons and no beta decay, an intriguing possibility
for thermal gain from fast electrons is still justified... and yes, it
still looks like beta decay to the observer, due to the fast electron.
Plus, the weak force may be involved in a unique non-nuclear way as a
continuum in an electroweak unified force range.
But here it is, a secret hidden in plain view - the k-shell... or more
precisely, the k-shell meets dense hydrogen with a common denominator of
3.7 keV.
If the gain in LENR can be shown to involve k-shell disruption of a
reactant - either lattice metals or especially potassium, then we have
crossed a significant conceptual hurdle. The reactant has a small
repository for two fast orbital electrons, yet with no apparent way to
dislodge them... until dense hydrogen comes along. And this makes the
gain chemical in nature - not nuclear. This is desirable, even if we
need to call it "supra-chemical" to distinguish it from valence chemistry.
Recently, a strong and narrow radiation band of around 3.56 keV
attracted unprecedented attention in the international astrophysics and
particle physics communities (and Vortex). The dark matter identity is
still not settled but potassium k-shell fluorescence is a candidate, as
is dense hydrogen, new neutrinos and a few others. We have several
threads in the archives discussing the connection to dense hydrogen to
dark matter. Can 3.56 keV emission line be reconciled with 3.7 keV of
Mayer?
Maybe. Gravitational red-shift is possible. Anyway, according to Mayer,
the electron is bound to the proton at 3.7 keV in a dense hydrogen
isomer. He comes across this value differently from Mills. This energy
value comes from Mayer's model of Schrodinger/Compton... and makes as
much sense as Mills progressive drop since it fits the K-shell
electrodynamics of transition metals such as nickel and palladium and
especially - potassium k-shell fluorescence. We have a known 3.7 keV
line which means the location of gain is the potash inner orbital, a
detail that any medieval alchemist would have suspected.
Consider the particle described as the tresino of Mayer or
hydrino-hydride of Mills, which has a negative charge and a tight
radius. The critical issue is precisely when the dense hydrogen atom
picks up and sheds the extra electron ... and/or is that electron a
k-shell electron of a host atom.
In a metal lattice, dense hydrogen can approach a nucleus but cannot
fuse. Instead it may encounter an electroweak force which otherwise
promotes beta decay but in this case is attenuated but can break up
dense hydrogen and accelerate an electron out as if there had been a
beta decay. But in fact, there was no real beta decay and nothing
changed drastically in the host nucleus itself.
This dense-hydrogen identity is becoming a tidy little package now,
merging Meyer, Mills and Meulenberg at 3.7 keV. Of course, it could all
be coincidental.
