Andrew— I have several questions regarding the linear model for H fusion you suggest:
1. When fusion occurs, how is the energy released (kinetic or potential in the form of an increased force field) as a result of the increased nucleon potential binding energy? 2. Does the linear molecular electronic structure of H(n) have a distinct excitation structure that is measureable? 3. Do such linear defects per Storm’s model happen in nano- particles? 4. How does a strong B field affect the linear lattice feature and/or the fusion rate of the H(n) entity? 5. Does spin pairing of protons (Cooper pairing) , as well as the spin paring of electrons you suggest, occur in the linear defect? 6. What conditions are necessary in a Bose condensate of paired protons for fusion to occur? 7. Is the fusion reaction a two- body reaction or a lattice reaction involving many particles during the short nucleon fusion interval? (Does the whole H(n) entity fuse or just 2 protons?) 8. Does the uncertainty principle come into effect by constraining the location of the hydrogen with an increase in its linear momentum? Bob Cook From: Andrew Meulenberg<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 3:13 AM To: VORTEX<mailto:[email protected]>; Andrew Meulenberg<mailto:[email protected]> Cc: Brian Ahern<mailto:[email protected]>; Axil Axil<mailto:[email protected]>; Jean-Luc Paillet<mailto:[email protected]>; cmns<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Metallic hydrogen does not exist If we define metals as materials with electrons that are bound to a lattice, but not to an individual atoms, then there is another (proposed) option for producing metallic H (at least on the sub-lattice level). K.P. Sinha, Ed Storms, and I have all proposed linear defects as a potential source for LENR. A. Meulenberg, “Pictorial description for LENR in linear defects of a lattice,” ICCF-18, 18th Int. Conf. on Cond. Matter Nuclear Science, Columbia, Missouri, 25/07/2013, J. Condensed Matter Nucl. Sci. 15 (2015), 117-124 If H atoms are inserted into linear defects of a lattice, the 'random' motion of the H2 molecular electrons is constrained. This lateral constraint of the electron motion means that, instead of massive pressures needed to bring H nuclei close enough together to lower the barrier between atoms, the progressive alignment and increasing overlap of the linearized electrons will do the same thing at room temperature. Progressive loading of H into the lattice defect, may produce a phase change in the H sub-lattice, if conditions are right. The proposed conditions are that the lattice structure of the linear defect, while strong enough to compress the lateral motion of the H electrons, does not strongly impose the lattice spacing onto the sub-lattice. The ability of the sub-lattice to alter/reduce its periodic structure means that at some point in the loading process the aligned-H2 molecular structure changes to that of H(n) and thus the local electrons are now bound to the larger molecule, not just to the pairs. If this alignment happens, and if the sub-lattice spacing can shrink, then a feedback mechanism of the electron-reduced Coulomb barrier between protons becomes dominant and cold fusion is initiated. A question of the process is the nature of the Pauli exclusion principle in this formation of H(n). Spin pairing, both between the individual electrons and between pairs, changes the fermi repulsion to bosonic attraction of electron pairs. It is likely that the pairing is spatially (and temporally?) periodic and this periodicity will introduce resonances between the lattice (fixed) and sub-lattice (variable) spacing. These resonances, which depend on lattice, nature of defect, temperature, and loading, could be the critical feature of amplitude in variations of H(n) nuclear spacing and of rates of cold fusion. Andrew M.
