Horace Heffner wrote:
The existence of H4 to H7 and possibly beyond, as well as He5 to He8,
may throw some light on the intermediate states of some LENR processes.
Wish you hadn't brought that one up, Inspector Clouseau.
Some time ago, in a fit of ... well, some kind of madness (whatever it
was that afflicted Pantone and/or Sellers ?) I had drafted a bit of LENR
satire on - ta da:
"Quadmium and Cold Fusion"
Alas ... as if often the case with satire: in the end, the absurdity of
the premise - or plot device which was employed to make the piece work,
seemed to be not so far out as imagined - on closer inspection. That
plot device was (4)H or Quadmium ... via D+Dy --> (4)H.
Here's the deal. In the close-confines of a metal matrix, where there
are two deuterium and the possibility that one of them is forced far
below ground state to becomes a dineutron - that then the dineutron
binds to the other deuteron - cough, cough ... and what does one end up
with, Chief Inspector ?... smells faintly of quadmium to me.
Cinema buffs may remember Quadmium in the guise of a bomb... or
"boommbe" as PS (Clouseau) was wont to say, in another guise ... from
the flick: "The Mouse That Roared" based on novel by Leonard Wibberley.
It featured a fictional European enclave called the Duchy of Grand
Fenwick, which for warped reasons, decides to challenge the superpowers
and wins.
After a wine from the States appears, bearing a 'similar' name to the
local Pinot, and which threatens to undermine the Duchy's economy (vino
fino) they declares war. Yup. Expecting to immediately be crushed, but
to then rebuild itself into a modern economy via the largess that the US
bestows on vanquished enemies: instead a strange thing happens. The
superpower is defeated by the Q-bomb, a kind of a prototype doomsday
device that could destroy the world if triggered.
If the obvious connection to Dr. Strangelove is not apparent on several
fronts, one needs to retire to the "Sellers" with a few cases of Grand
Enwick wine. Peter Sellers in three different roles including "Count
Rupert Mountjoy" the Prime Minister is enough to drive anyone mad.
The main plot is an early example of what has been know as a "Springtime
for Hitler" event, when something intended to fail - amazingly doesn't.
Maybe, in true synchronicity-vorticity we will see that - LENR - which
is undoubtedly something which is intended (by mainstream Fissix) to
fail miserably, amazingly doesn't.
JOnes
