Jones— You mention a dense hydrogen isomer. What do you mean? Hydrogen metal with all nuclei having the same spin direction? Are you suggesting a dense molecular hydrogen?
BOB COOK From: Jones Beene Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 12:35 PM To: Vortex List Subject: [Vo]:Mayer, Mills and hopping neutrons 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.
