Horace wrote: "I don't know why a neutron would not act like a neutron."
Let me take a stab at that one... Perhaps because it's in a fully D-loaded palladium lattice, where other things aren't acting like they 'should'? ;-) Yeah, I know, that wasn't much help... -Mark -----Original Message----- From: Horace Heffner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Falsifiability of cold neutrons in LENR On Dec 10, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Jones Beene wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Horace Heffner > >> That of course assumes the W&L claim that "neutron is thus absorbed >> within about ten nanometers" is valid.... > > As you go on to imply, that particular version is almost certainly not > valid, due to NA, and is probably "undergoing revision" as we speak > ... ;-) but of greater interest would be this: > > Is there a version of the broader UCN dynamic, using published > characteristics of the same instead of a tailor-made invention, which > stands up better to criticism and do involve NA ? > > This might go back many years. The weight of evidence for helium in > LENR, based on known reactions prior to 1989 together with lack of > ~24 MeV gamma - still favors alpha release from Pd via adsorption of a > neutron - and a subthermal neutron and with activation fits the bill > if it will emit no gamma ... I don't know why a neutron would not act like a neutron.
