To combine the contributions of Mills, Swartz, Widom and Larson (MSWL)
there is an emergent hypothesis coming out of all of this: which does
fulfill the goal of explaining the bulk of LENR reactions in which
Helium or tritium is not found commensurate with the energy produced.
Unlike the far reaching and false claim of W/L, this theory will not
attempt to explain D+D --> He or D+D (T,p) etc.
--BUT--
...having this theory in place, along with the availability of a
strongly exothermic reaction in any compound system, can and does
provide an explanation for the energy input necessary for those more
demanding reactions to proceed.
ERGO - The MSWL hypothesis is not fusion nor fission, but weak
exothermic interaction, involving quasi-neutron formation, and
subsequent beta decay — strongly dependent on Mills' "below ground
state" electron orbital shrinkage; and using using the O++ catalytic
hole either from water or preferably from a double bound species.
Furthermore: In any electrolytic system, the energy of this non-fusion
exotherm, or alternatively - the QM statistical enhancement of the local
environment - may lead to real fusion or real fission reactions, which
are dependent on higher levels of energy input than are otherwise
available from the electrical input.
Ockham be damned!
Jones
In the light water SPAWAR cell, presumably the interaction of monatomic
hydrogen (which has been split-off via the deposited Pd) when it occurs
with the O++ ion (from the polymer) would then result in a "faux n"
(false-neutron) which is to say a subthermal highly shrunken hydrogen
atom which is closer to a neutron in size and physical properties than
it is to hydrogen and which entity has already given up (in the form of
UV photons) much of its original mass-energy.
This is probably a testable hypothesis!
All SPAWARS needs to do to confirm this is to mount a UV photocell in
the electrolysis cell itself and in close proximity to the film.
They can probably even borrow the appropriate UV photomultiplier from
NIST, which has them available (or had) on a lease program. They should
be getting high levels of EUV, if this hypothesis is correct.
Jones
