Your post explains my lines of thinking very well and improves on them in many respects.
I had not considered what happens to the residual hydrogen fragments after the first reaction takes place over and above the creation of copper from the penetration of the nickel nucleus by a fast proton. [snip] When H is the fuel, then reactions between individual H's are less likely because of the necessity of weak force conversion of protons to neutrons,[/snip] I thought that the W-L mechanism of heavy electron conversion via the reverse beta decay mechanism was the likely origin of neutrons to round out the nuclei of the light ash elements during the multi-hydrogen fusion process. One mechanism that I once considered was in play is the EMC effect. I had an argument with a CERN guy who told me I needed to study text books on high energy physics because my thinking that the EMC effect could not be applied to low energy reactions. What the EMC effect states is that the bigger the nucleus is, the less coulomb shielding is required to penetrate that barrier. Because this guy discouraged me, my only sources of info on this subject are as follows: Bound neutrons pave way to free ones http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-bound-neutrons-pave-free.html For those interested, a mathematical description of the EMC effect is here: On the dependence of the wave function of a bound nucleon on its momentum and the EMC effect http://arxiv.org/pdf/0706.2937 Do you think that there is anything in the EMC affect that makes cold fusion transmutation go? On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 6:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Axil Axil's message of Fri, 27 May 2011 15:48:49 -0400: > Hi, > [snip] > >Through countless revelations generously supplied, Rossi has put to rest > >untold numbers of my pet speculations on the working principles behind his > >Cat-E reactor. > > > >As the latest example, Rossi says that a Bunsen burner could be used to > >generate the heat for the reaction. No cathode or volts required. > > > >This latest revelation rips the heart out of the theory that the Cat-E > >process involves the acceleration of ions via electrostatic forces. > > > >My latest operating theory: the thermally activated production of Rydberg > >matter clusters of hydrogen via carbon with a surface coat of potassium is > >still in the running however. > > Actually clusters (of 1,7,19,37,61 etc.) might explain everything. > > First, the smallest cluster would be 7. That has important consequences for > energy distribution. If at least 7 particles are available, and 2 undergo > fusion, then that leaves 6 nuclei plus their associated electrons to share > the > energy of the reaction, ensuring that no really high energy particles are > created. It also means that D+D can fuse all the way to He4, without the > need to > fission into He3 + n or T + p. > > When D is the fuel, then D+D fusion becomes far and away the most likely > reaction because the Coulomb barrier for this reaction is at a minimum, and > the > cross section at a maximum (due to the large energy gain). > > When H is the fuel, then reactions between individual H's are less likely > because of the necessity of weak force conversion of protons to neutrons, > however reactions with the metal atoms are not excluded if the protons are > accompanied by electrons when tunneling into the nucleus. The energy of > such > reactions can still be absorbed by the remainder of the cluster. > > Occasionally, an entire H cluster may convert to single atom. The atoms one > might then expect would have masses as per the series mentioned here above. > > 7 Lithium > 19 Fluorine > 37 Chlorine > 61 Nickel > 91 Zirconium > 127 Iodine > > so one might expect to find some of these substances after long running of > the > device. > > The density of the clusters increases with their atom count. With > increasing > density the nuclei would be closer together, increasing the probability of > tunneling. Once a certain probability threshold is reached, the > condensation > happens, and the cluster is destroyed, ensuring that heavier elements don't > form. This may be what makes formation of Ni likely. That's where the > threshold > is reached, due to the binding energy maximum, however evidence indicates > that > it takes a considerably larger cluster before the required density is > reached. > That means that there as still lots of particles left over to share the > formation energy with. (Evidence in this case being the lack of high energy > ionizing radiation). > > [out of left field] Perhaps the nuclear frequency of the surrounding Ni > atoms > provides a "coherence field" that stimulates the condensation, analogous to > the > operation of a laser, where emission of light quanta is stimulated by > existing > quanta of the same frequency? (In this case the stimulation would be by > "matter > waves"). It's almost as though the existing Ni nuclei are teaching the > cluster > atoms how to become Ni nuclei. ;) > [return to normal programming] > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
