At 12:32 PM 12/11/2009, Jones Beene wrote:
There does exist a provocative implication to the expected (but missing)
high branching ratio of 50%, which they mention here. IOW the issue is why
is so little 3He seen in LENR as well as so few neutrons -IF- this reaction
is favored half the time:
d + d -> 3He + n (Q = 3.3MeV)
Especially when combined with an observed neutron emission rate which is
-10e7 times smaller than expected from the reported levels of energy
generation.
The likely reason is that the reaction is not
d+d, which would indeed be likely to have that
branching ratio if that was all that was
involved. If some other reactant were added that
provided negative energy, perhaps (as with
Oppenheimer-Phillips). But then where is the
gamma? Perhaps this other reactant carries it
off. But then, wouldn't we expect some really hot alphas?
OK, if the neutrons were ultracold due to the circumstance, and in effect
stayed localized, then they might conceivably react again in a 3He(n,ã)4He
reaction - BUT instead of the ã (gamma) being radiated, in the constrained
matrix of LENR we have an immediate internalized photodisintegration of 4He.
What's really hard for me is to imagine that such
a possibility would be so controlling that other
outcomes would be rare. It's not merely, then,
that an "ultracold" or ultra low momentum
neutron, might "stay localized," but that I can't
see how this could be other than sloppy, i.e.,
something that would happen sometimes and more
often, perhaps, it would behave as neutrons ordinarily behave.
This makes things reversible but with a significant "free energy" gap,
presumably to be made up by ZPE ;-) Ha ... ROTFL
Actually, LENR is a message from alien
time-travelers, able to control everything on a
quark level, that we don't know shit. This
hypothesis explains everything. Or anything, for that matter.
