Mauro: Given what we know now or suspect in 2010 about the Arata nanopowder, and given the accuracy of the implosion theory that Richter was basing his results on (from the early forties Nazi efforts): G. Guderley, "Powerful spherical and cylindrical compression of shocks in neighborhood of the spherical and cylindrical axis" Luftfahrtforschung 19 (1942) 302-312, which actually served as the basis of our Fat Man (Nagasaki) bomb...
. there is the slight possibility that it could have been pulled-off, or at least that a "Richter meme" (in an alternative Universe, say) for a low tech breakthrough in fusion (or at least in some kind of LENR), which is 50 years ahead of its time - is/was possible. IOW this is not as remote as it may have seemed a few years ago, before Arata demonstrated the implications of "pycno". This is even more relevant in terms of Richter's almost certain access to the Paneth and Peters work: "The transmutation of Hydrogen into Helium" from Berlin, 1928. That report, which relied on an alloy of palladium and silver, might really have witness something valid despite a forced retraction- but even if not .there is the chance that Richter, if he has been thorough and more creative - and was trying out a nickel-palladium alloy as an alternative, in the event that he could have "overmilled" the powder in a ball mill so as to get nanopowder, and using the Guderley shock waves, well . quien sabe? Jones
