From: Mark Iverson Jones wrote: "Why, you ask? In two words - "chain reaction". This ability to self-sustain is a very clear indication of at least a limited chain reaction. I will define the "limited" part in another post." It may be a chain reaction, but most likely NOT the kind that escalates as fast as in a nuclear bomb. In fact, it will probably self-extinguish when it hits the melting point of the nickel... granted, if this were to happen, you would need to replace the guts, or even the whole reactor, but at least you haven't vaporized the town and all its inhabitants!!! :-)
Indeed, a putative QM chain reaction is not neutron based, as in fission. But by analogy with hot fusion, such as in a Tokomak and at such a time when the reaction becomes self-sustaining, we have a model of limited chain reactions based on hydrogen (deuterons and tritons) being the particles which sustain the reaction. This goes outside conventional verbalization, but I think it helps with understanding. An exponential build up of heat in the Tokomak is avoided by the thinness of the plasma. At this juncture, giving the inventor benefit of doubt, and since Rossi seems convinced that the main reaction involves a proton and a nickel nucleus, then we would have to conclude the relatively cold hydrogen sustains the chain. How then are a few randomly selected protons accelerated from moderately cold to very hot without most of the rest getting appreciably hotter? Well, it's almost humorous - but one of the ways to accelerate protons inside a nanopowder would be using near-fields of the containment - and something like, dare I say it: Michel's "sphincter effect" http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg22625.html This would probably not allow a massive variation in speed however, wherein most remain cold. Another way would be a version of Fran's relativistic time distortion, but it could have the same problem of homogeneity. The following presents another mechanism, but may benefit from both of those descriptions to some degree. IMO "pycno" clusters of dense hydrogen are needed, and each cluster consists of bound hydrogen atoms created by the spillover effect, and which oscillate between the fermionic and bosonic identities in a transitory fashion inside a cavity. Most of the time, 99.999+ percent of the time, the identity is fermionic, but every once in a while everything aligns as a transitory composite boson and then condenses momentarily until coherence is lost, whereupon coulomb repulsion on expansion can propel one of more protons to very high acceleration if conditions are right. A single proton out of a mass of perhaps 10-100 cold atoms bound a group gets very hot, carrying away all of the excess heat and perhaps even cooling the remainder cluster from which it came, in the process. Pycno is only stable in a temperature range, so in a way it is self-controlling and avoids the exponential build up of energy. To be continued . (hopefully with clearer wording) after the Monday announcement. Jones BTW the next post will hope explore the possibility that none of the known hot fusion reactions involving Ni-H may be applicable to this, and the "fusion" itself could be endothermic, meaning that all of the heating (and more) comes from the zero point field - which provided the force needed to contain and condense the pycno. That is what is meant by "QM fusion". and it drives this emerging hypothesis to the limits of the twilight zone, so to speak.
