This is sort of what seems most natural to me. Something is happening on either side of NI62, and it gets into a cyclic state - once in a while by the magic of QM it overshoots and you get copper, or undershoots and you get iron. But most of the time it bounces back and forth. Some oscillatory state of the nucleus is being excited and it doesn't know which side of the binding-energy-per-nucleon to be on.
---------------------------------------------- "I write a little. I erase a lot." - Chopin --- On Fri, 11/4/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [Vo]:Could undetected nuclear isomers explain any LENR? To: [email protected] Date: Friday, November 4, 2011, 7:36 PM Since nuclear isomers (i.e., metastable atoms with excited nuclei) can store energies far exceeding chemical energies, could any LENR results be due to undetected isomers decaying to nuclear ground state? Some are extremely long-lived, and some may still be undiscovered. (e.g., "Discovery of a Nuclear Isomer in 65Fe..." http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/i13/e132501) Extremely low contamination would suffice. I'm not sure, but I believe that detection would be difficult. Unlikely, but I would welcome opinions. Thanks, Lou Pagnucco
