At 08:18 PM 10/2/2009, [email protected] wrote:
In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:03:51 -0400:
>It
>might not be a metal lattice; the whole biological transmutation
>approach, we might suspect, would represent protein-catalyzed fusion,
>basically a protein, I assume, setting up confinement conditions that
>facilitate fusion.
What sort of confinement do you have in mind here?
Confinement: restricting the motion of fusible elements such that the
fusion cross-section is increased over what would be expected at the
same temperature in free space. Palladium, if Takahashi is correct,
appears to function by restricting the motion of deuterium molecules
so that the probability is enhanced of Tetrahedral Symmetric
Condensate formation, which begins with a specific spatial
relationship of two deuterium molecules (i.e., four deuterons,
including four electrons), a relationship which we can imagine is
encouraged by cubic confinement, the TSC being the most efficient
packing; the reaction rate is then limited by the probability of
getting two D2 molecules into a single cubic lattice position, which
is -- fortunately! -- quite low. Proteins can create just about any
necessary spatial configuration and thus catalyze many chemical
reactions; I see no theoretical reason why proteins could not create
a similar situation to the lattice; one or more of the atoms involved
might be bound to the protein.
All I'm saying is that if metal lattice catalyzed cold fusion is
possible, then it would not be surprising to find that a protein can
man age it, and if a protein can manage it, and if some survival
advantage could exist for cells that pull off a LENR trick, then it
would also not be surprising to find cells which can do it. While I'd
not assign a high probability to this, ab initio and without
evidence, it does mean to me that Vyosotskii's work should not be
rejected out of hand, nor should the other reports of biological
transmutations. *Someone* should investigate and attempt to reproduce
Vyosotskii and perhaps some of the other, older, transmutation
experiments, about which I know less.
