Are you ready for an apéritif yet ? It's after 6 somewhere, as they say ...
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CampariEGsurfaceana.pdf Funny thing about this paper. They talk about many issues of Nickel-hydrogen which seem to be interesting but comparatively irrelevant - but do not mention a big difference between fig6 and fig7 - which is the appearance of significant carbon and oxygen. The oxygen might not be unexpected, as it is a ubiquitous contaminant and would be expected to migrate to the surface of a SS rod - but where did the carbon come from? It is also ubiquitous, especially in iron - but far less likely to migrate. The carbon is likely "new" since it was absent in fig6. COINCIDNETALLY (if you believe in coincidence) and earlier this week (and to very little fanfare) a heavier relative of the neutron has been discovered, according to Fermilab. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/xi-sub-b-particle/ We vorticians can dispense with the fake neology and call it the Xi neutron, instead of Xib as that seems to be a nerdy kind of 'gimmick' designed to get some extra publicity for the Lab (Fermilab needs all the help they can get to stay open, but this story did not register with the public). Maybe that is because the Xi doesn't last very long - but it does contains three quarks, which could be important. Do quarks rearrange themselves in a fashion like the neutrino (aka neutrino oscillation) ? This is not as improbable as you may be thinking with elemental particles, especially when they come in lots of flavors. Anyway, the Xi particle decays quickly and the fact that it took very high energy to create it might certainly make anyone think that it has no possible relevance to LENR, or to Ni-H, and certainly not to the Campari paper. Probably not, but who knows? It would only be an intermediary at best. The new particle contains a strange quark, an up quark and a bottom quark and weighs-in as if it were six protons (or six neutrons). If it were possible to "make" them (rearrange them) at lower energy then the decay path could also be lower energy. The fact that they exist at all is the important detail (for this suggestion). Fear not, angels - step aside and let a fool rush-in to opine that the highly speculative way that the Xi neutron might be involved in LENR - and it would be through carbon. This assumes that Campari did see lots of "new" carbon. Two of the Xi, if formed from "Inverted Rydberg hydrogen" under certain conditions might transmute into carbon via the pathway of Xi. ... or not, but if not, where is this carbon coming from? Too much Campari? Jones Your smile of the day - A Xi particle walks into a bar and asks: "Hey, barkeep, how much for a beer?" The bartender looks him over and says, "For you pal, no charge."
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