The "diamond anvil cell" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_anvil
...offers a possible way to verify details of the previously stated hypothesis: that an isomer of hydrogen in a deeply redundant ground state - called the "transmuton" (resembling to some extent the species described by Mills et al) is responsible for the nickel anomaly seen in many meteorites. The transmuton would be formed from hydrogen [or isomers of hydrogen in the solar wind] which was absorbed over billions of years, percolates into the planetary core, and which then further forms a stable 'parasitic' particle in a host metal (given time + pressure) displacing an electron of equal value in IP enthalpy. ... such that - in the iron core of planets like earth, this agent can result, via LENR (in a previously unrecognized kind of nuclear reaction) in the conversion of "favored reactions": such as the transmutation of Fe to Ni. Since the 'transmuton' could be effectively more massive than a proton, the energy balance of the reaction is unknown, but could be very much lower than expected from known protonic reactions. This reaction could be accelerated in a cosmic impact. Such an impact has occured in the past and we have evidence of it and the transmution products in nickel-iron meteorits. A favored reaction demands the ending species, such as nickel (58Ni), be "neutron poor" and of compatable QM spin and other variables to the starting isotope - such as iron (56Fe). Any attempt at verifying this hypothesis must begin with iron containing a population of transmutons. Does that rule out an experiment on earth ? Not necessarily, depending on the stability of this species. Here is how it could be pulled-off. The diamond anvil can supply the necessary pressure, 100 gigapascals - so that there should be measurable LENR in a sample held in one of these device for a few weeks if there was a large population of transmutons to begin with, and of course, if the underlying hypothesis is valid. Since "deep" core iron is never available on earth, even in volcanoes, the source of iron with a pre-existing population of this species would need to come from nickel-iron meteorite found on earth, or better yet the moon. Since these chunks of metal have already undergone at least two very violent episodes, during which some or most of the iron was transmuted to nickel (650 million years ago in this hypothesis) and also the flaming entry into our atmosphere - either of those events could likely strip the iron of some or most of the original population of the hypothetical species [that which had not already been involved in transmutation]. However, possibly some active population remains. This experiment is not extremely costly and should be tried, at least with a sample of metal from the largest possible meteorite available; and which sample is taken from its center of mass, where the chances of finding the needed starting material would be greatest. If it shows anything positive then better sources should be sought. It would be very significant in such an experiment, one would think, if a sample that was 30% nickel at the start- after a week in the anvil measured 31% - and this could be repeated several times to mitigate any chance of measurement error. Jones
