I wrote:
I have read theory papers even though I understand them only partially, and have talked to many theorists. I have often asked whether they think this is one phenomenon or several. As far as I recall, they all think it is a single phenomenon.
Woops. Here is an exception, in a paper that I am preparing to upload at this moment, Iwamura, Y., et al. Correlation between behavior of deuterium in palladium and occurance of nuclear reactions observed by simultaneous measurement of excess heat and nuclear products. in Sixth International Conference on Cold Fusion, Progress in New Hydrogen Energy. 1996. Lake Toya, Hokkaido, Japan: Lake Toya, Hokkaido, Japan. It says:
"In our previous paper [3], was suggested that x-ray and neutron are generated by different reactions. Therefore it seems that we should not exclude the possibility that various nuclear reactions occur and produce various nuclear ashes.
Ref. 3 is: Y. Iwamura, N. Gotoh, T. Itoh and I. Toyoda, "Characteristic X-ray and Neutron Emission from Electrochemically Deuterated Palladium", Proc. of ICCF-5, Monte Carlo, Monaco, April 9-13, 1995, p. 197
Iwamura is not a theorist, but anyway, here is someone who thinks there is more than one nuclear reaction going on.
Along the same lines, Ed Storms has said that some observations of low-level neutrons are probably caused by fractal fusion, and are thus not anomalous, and not related to the cold fusion reactions that sometimes occur in the same sample. That's a rather trivial example. I do not think that is the sort of thing Jones Beene had in mind when he asserted with absolute conviction that there is NO single mechanism for CF. The fractofusion in this case is not a mechanism and it has nothing to do with the cold fusion. It is another reaction that happens to occur in the same sample. If anything, it probably reduces the level of the cold fusion reaction, because fractured palladium probably does not load or generate a cold fusion reaction. I would expect it to be anti-correlated, and if the same sample produces both, that is because large parts of the sample are not fractured.
- Jed
