On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:58 PM, [email protected] wrote:
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Thu, 8 Oct 2009 13:02:07
-0800:
Hi,
[snip]
If the D(D,gamma)He4 branch is highly favored and the D(D,p)T and D
(D,n) He3 reactions highly suppressed, it is reasonable to expect the
lower energy branches are being energetically suppressed by a lack of
energy to make them feasible.
[snip]
He4 is far more stable than either He3+n or T+p, and the only
reason that it
doesn't form all the time is because the excited He4 nucleus
doesn't have any
fast energy removal channel available to it (quadrupole gamma
radiation is very
slow compared to energy loss via a fast particle). That means that
the excited
nucleus usually breaks up releasing the energy as fast particles
long before the
gamma ray could dispose of the energy.
However in your deflation fusion model there is *always* an
electron present in
the newly formed He4* (because that's what catalyzed the reaction
in the first
place). There is therefore nothing to hinder the formation of He4
by disposing
of the excess energy as kinetic energy of the electron, which has
to be expelled
anyway. That neatly explains the change in branching ratios without
resorting to
any exchange with the ZPE.
I forgot to note another very strong indication that the ability of
the electron to radiate photonic energy is not the primary reason for
the change in branching ratios, but rather the deflated energy of the
initial result of the wavefunction collapse. In other words there is
another indication there is a vacuum exchange of energy upon fusion
resulting in an apparent reduced Q of the cold fusion reactions. That
indication is the nearly complete lack of evidence of any excess heat
or particle emissions from the heavy nucleus fusions, despite large
nuclear mass changes. There is plenty of evidence of lattice element
transmutation, but little evidence of excess heat. The reason this
is so is that hydrogen fusion adds one positive charge to the
nucleus, increasing the bonding of the electron by a factor of two,
one unit of which is offset by the electron's kinetic energy, and
other unit of which is lost energy due to the added proton. In the
case of fusion of deflated hydrogen with an A proton nucleus, fusion
adds A positive charges to the nucleus, increasing the bonding of the
electron by a factor of A+1, one unit of which is offset by the
electron's kinetic energy, and the other A units of which is lost
energy due to the added protons. The lack of appropriate net energy
emerging from the new nucleus can not be due to the photon radiation
of the trapped electron. It has to have been carried off by vacuum
transactions, possibly electroweak reactions involving neutral
species. This is not a large leap of intuition when you consider the
fact that much of the mass of hadrons is not really there, but
results from vacuum transactions in which particle pairs, including
strange quarks, pop in and out of existence within Heisenberg limits.
The nucleus is a hotbed of vacuum transactions, so it requires no
stretch of the imagination to expect an internuclear electron to be
involved in such transactions.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
