There are some interesting thoughts here and in the YouTube comments. It is a bit surprising that no one mentioned “polywater” since the exploding wire was taking place in a cloud chamber with high moisture content - and the filaments we see are supposedly high in water/hydride content which could be bound together with the remnants of the wire. The remnants are possibly nanoparticles of silver (if the wire was silver) – more likely nano-fibers instead of particles.
Curiously, silver nanowires are widely studied - and readily available online - and are transparent. The milky color would be due to hydriding. The Wiki piece on polywater is one of the most poorly written explanations ever to show up there. The author got this episode of history completely wrong. Polywater was not “disproved” per se, but instead was shown to be a real phenomenon not of pure water. It was not polymerized – but can be called “structured mineralized water” which was misnamed and mischaracterized by sloppy US scientists looking for grants based on fear mongering of Soviet research (in the Sputnik days). In effect, polywater could probably be made in an alternate way using filaments of metal nanofibers, so we are talking about almost the same thing. Polaritons may not be required, but dense hydrogen could be required for the magnetic properties. Polywater alone would not be paramagnetic unless made with minerals like iron oxide. An almost identical phenomenon was most likely discovered back in the cold war but it is now improved– especially when using a wire which is catalytic for dense hydrogen, which is the new wrinkle – thanks to Mills. If it has not been mentioned before – silver is one of Mills favored catalysts for ground state redundancy. But why does BRLP not collect the filaments in a filter for further testing? One suspects the lifetime is limited… or else Mills does not want to give away too much information. From: Roarty, Francis X OK, that might explain why the bulk material didn’t collapse and cling to the tool the researcher used to attract it. Mills has always talked about his hydrinos being part and parcel with hydrides and I never believed these exotic types of hydrogen can persist outside of the cavity environment but you seem to be suggesting that this gaseous smoke still contains a metal matrix like aerojels!? The polaritons by definition are on metal surfaces, now marooned in an airborne bulk with its buoyancy from the held dense hudrogen? I cant see a closed cell effect like aerojels. Fran From: Axil Axil IMHO, this smoke is metal hydride nanoparticles that are covered on their surface with polaritons. The polaritons are the source of the magnetism that binds the nanoparticles togither. The SunCell uses this smoke to form a dusty plasma that can produce a self sustaining LENR reaction. JonesBeene wrote: This video is (reputedly) what dense hydrogen looks like, in response to a strong magnet https://youtu.be/Epenv-PPLJM Somewhat mind boggling, shall we say. If not dense hydrogen, it is unclear what else the ghostly filaments could be. Apparently it is paramagnetic and possibly superfluidic, whereas hydrogen is a diamagnetic, invisible gas. Or more to the point – what else could one do with the material to proved its identity/characteristics? One of the things (phenomena) which comes to mind … LOL … “ectoplasm” which is somewhat fitting given the circumstances.
