extra inertia? Harry On 22/5/2008 6:42 PM, Michel Jullian wrote:
> I am sure it can! What's your take on the reason why deuterons fuse more > easily than identically charged protons BTW? Jones proposed a reason that > didn't convince me, namely that the extra neutron does some screening. > > Michel > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robin van Spaandonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:09 PM > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: HyLENR : was: Britain reveals UFO documents > > > In reply to Michel Jullian's message of Thu, 22 May 2008 11:26:47 +0200: > Hi, > [snip] >> For lack of time I haven't gone back to my fusion rate maths efforts yet, but >> I guess encounters would be closer by a factor equal to the shrinking factor >> roughly, and since I remember you said fusion rate increased wildly with >> decreasing distance, I guess that if significantly shrunken hydrinos existed >> they would fuse almost immediately. >> >> I wonder, if my above speculation is correct, could this be the reason why >> Mills doesn't want any connection with LENR, because their propensity to fuse >> would make hydrinos impossible as stable particles? > [snip] > This is one reason why I suspect that each successive level of Hydrino > shrinkage > is more difficult to achieve than the previous level. The earlier levels are > still too large to fuse, hence stable compounds are possible. Actually even > the > small ones need to be very small to have a reasonable fusion half life, with > ordinary elements e.g. C, N , O etc. Probably too small to still form the > Hydride. The higher the charge on the nucleus, the longer the fusion > half-life. > (This can get even more complicated if you like ;) > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > The shrub is a plant. >
