*The High-Rydburg theory of the Rossi reaction.*
When hot high pressure hydrogen is bombarded with thermal electrons, long lived clumps of negative hydrogen ions form. High-Rydburg(*HR)* states produced by electron impact have been observed with lifetimes of about 100 microseconds to seconds based on their quantum excitation states. High-Rydberg states of H2 produced via electron impact have been observed with long lifetimes. Such long-lived *HR *states are thought to be high orbital angular momentum (high-C) states populated via electron impact near ion threshold energies. Preliminary measurements 'using a new experimental technique’ (Pinnaduwage, *L. A., *and Datskos,) show that the effective lifetimes may be *Lengthened *at high ambient pressures; this could be due to the collisional stabilization of vibrationally-excited core of the *HR* state. In more detail, the *HR* clump is coherent with orbital electrons moving in circular orbits far from the ion cores. These clumps are effectively super-atoms that don’t react with ordinary H2. As kinetic energy is added by atomic and further electron impacts on the clumps, the quantum level of ionization grows larger and the lifetime of the clump increases. These ion cores are comprised of hundreds of hydrogen nuclei with their electrons orbiting at extreme distances. When these ion core complexes find their way into the lattice defects of nickel, a fusion process occurs. This process is the fusion mechanism that is universal to all cold fusion processes observed in many years of countless cold fusion experiments. On the practical side, this coherent ion state of hydrogen can be produced by dissociation of CH4 by glow discharge electron emissions. In turn this CH4 can be produced when carbon is heated and evaporates in a hydrogen atmosphere. Graphite heated in a high pressure hydrogen atmosphere will generate CH4.
