> ED: So, I ask, where does this amazing particle come from and where does > the energy come from to make it in the apparatus?
Since this is essentially the same as the two Steve's question, here is a quick verbalization of a very complex rationale which is still evolving: [if nothing else it should be good for a Rube Goldbergesque smile} Let me revise what I had previously speculated-on ... which is that a transmuton, or virtual neutron, derives from a most unusual three-particle "ZPE pumping reaction" of the Dirac epo field, which is a methodology which is similar in some ways to Mills' hydrino formation but markedly different in that the formation of this "transmuton" is endothermic, not exothermic as in CQM. It demands FRET - Forster resonant energy transfer at 3.4 eV. Phenanthrene provides that. The "starting particle" itself would be a monatomic hydrogen, which ends up with a near-maximum-low Bohr redundant orbital (near 1/137) and it would still need a neutrino to complete the reaction with carbon, which takes the proton only via Coulomb shielding (with the deflated electron as shield), reverts to 13N for a very short time and then goes to 13C via positron decay. The positron is part of the "borrowed energy repayment" and it reverts back to the Dirac epo field "to pay the piper". A neutrino, assuming one is required, comes from either the solar flux, due to vastly increased cross-section under these circumstances, or from the epo field. The net energy gain of the (proton --> transmuton+neutrino) after the transmutation is close to the average mass-energy of existing neutrons in 12C or otherwise this reaction would not be resonant, and could not occur since so little energy is involved on either end. It is almost a singularity in some ways, but has probably been seen before at least in parts (Les Case). It all begins with QTAIM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtaim This is a quantum physical process needed for a complete understanding of what is going on at the QM level in this reaction- via the Forster radius: that is- when phenanthrene is heated and pressurized with H2 past a resonant (kinetic) threshold... ... then, once the threshold is reached, it begins to slowly undergo unusual low energy nuclear changes, which seem to end with massive isotopic shifts in carbon - with only modest excess energy release. This approach is a quantum chemical model that characterizes the chemical bonding of a system based on the topology of the quantum charge density when there are two *loosely bound* interacting protons, which become variably bound under pressure with a third proton. See image #2 of the molecular structure under the Wiki entry above to see where on the molecule that this reaction occurs. It occurs in sequential pumped steps of 3.4 eV FRET transfers from the Dirac epo field via the fluorescent pathway to the transmuton. The problem with using Mills for explaining this unique variety of shrinkage reaction is that the phenanthrene molecule has a different ionization energy than needed, which means that it cannot function as a Mills' catalyst. That is exactly why I proposed getting the same level of 'ending energy' transfer (multiples of 27.2 eV via FRET and the sequential 3.4 eV fluorescent ZPE pumping, instead of catalysis, and/or energy holes, as Mills does. Of course, the inherent fluorescence of phenanthrene and its absorption spectrum at this level could be coincidental. If you believe in coincidence. In the end, this is an unique alternative explanation and isn't CQM at all but is CQM-influenced or CQM-inspired. Note that the methodology for hydrinos proposed by Mills is never suggested as being the *only way* that the same end result (redundant states) can happen in practice. This is bizarre and complicated enough, admittedly - but there is more. Until Mizuno is vindicated and replicated and better alternative theories arrive - or until this one is shot down for some other reason than Occam (which is a lame cop-out) there is little harm in providing alternatives from which to fashion such a "construct" nor harm in even inventing a hypothetical particle which is capable of a low energy transmutation of carbon - and it could very well end up being ONLY carbon. Note also that Les Case used active ingredients (charcoal from coconut shells supposedly) which might well contain phenanthrene, so there may be other evidence of this reaction in old experiments. I fully believe that fluorescence is vital to this reaction even if the pathway which is proposed here is not accurate. Maybe, if nothing else - this effort will spur Mills into publishing a good MS analysis of his solid fuel ash... which has never appeared. I am certain he would find a LENR transmutation of sodium to magnesium, if he looked. And that is the reason that he will never look or at least never publish it. Jones
