On Feb 20, 2008, at 4:57 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:55:11
-0900:
Hi Horace,
[snip]
On Feb 20, 2008, at 6:56 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Here is part of a message to me from Tom Barnard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
We just started a web site, ichaphysics.com , to put forth a cold
fusion theory that we have been working on for about 5 years. We
feel that we've taken it about as far as we can. We can not find
any errors in the physics,
Their identification of "~12 MeV alpha" particles as the primary
reaction product creates immediate strong doubts about the theory!
[snip]
Why?
Because high energy alphas have not been detected in proportion to
the enthalpy generated, not even close by orders of magnitude. This
is one of the great theoretical challenges taken up by the Chubbs -
explaining why high energy particles, including alphas (and their
Bremsstrahlung) are *not* found in numbers sufficient to explain the
enthalpy. This is one of the strengths of the deflation fusion
concept, in that individual high energy products should not be
generated in the process.
I would like to hear why you would expect 12 MeV alphas predicted by
a theory as the principal reaction path to *not* be a major problem
with the theory.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
