[email protected] wrote on 10-20-10: There is a third possibility. It is DD fusion, but the normal path is not followed. There are at least three theories that would make this possible.
1) Takahashi 2) Mine - the energy is carried away from the reaction by a fast electron (IC). 3) Horace's - which I don't quite understand. Jones wrote on 10-20-10: There is a fourth theory (working hypothesis) from yours truly - which is can be called "local energy depletion fusion"... or "time-reversed BEC fusion". The important points of it are: 1) Helium is an effect, not a cause 2) Energy is first depleted in small quanta, in units of 6.8 eV via disruption to the Dirac epo field, which is NOT a part of our 3-space 3) The ionization potential of positronium is 6.8 eV, but this energy level is left in our 3-space, due to a number of cross-dimensional strains, similar to those ZPE related effects that Fran Roarty and I have talked about - including Casimir cavity acceleration. 4) Small packets of energy released over time then accumulate to tens of MeV equivalent levels, causing a local energy depleted region, which is effectively extremely "cold" (far below absolute zero) 5) Deuterons entering an energy-depleted region act as BECs but go even further in that they can and do fuse, while at the same time returning the large local energy deficit - as payback. 6) This restores the local deficit of the Dirac epo field to effectively "balance the books." Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote on 10-20-10: ... Takahashi's theory is not DD fusion. It is 4D fusion, four deuterons simultaneously collapsing and fusing all at once, that's why the product is helium and why there is no gamma ray (because there are two products, so momentum can be conserved.) What I point out is that perhaps there is some special condition for 2D fusion that causes it to branch exclusively to helium, and that carries away the reaction energy in a different way. Sorry about your fast electron theory, if I'm correct, Hagelstein has set a limit of about 20 KeV for any substantial levels of charged particles from the reaction, otherwise stuff, like Bremmstrahlung radiation, would be observed. That's a problem for about every theory except cluster fusion. I.e., *if* there is D-D fusion, it's taking place within a cluster, so the reaction energy is shared among all members of the cluster. And that simply is not ordinary d-d fusion ... Basically, it appears that anything that just brings two deuterons together, like muon-catalyzed fusion, produces normal branching and results. Hi All, 10-20-10 I wonder what Don Hotson thinks about this. Jack Smith
