Hi Robin, Sorry, guess I was focusing on the question, not the questioner!! :-)
Let me deal with the second question first, and I'll follow up tomorrow on Q1. Robin's second question: 2) If such ensembles are fleeting, then one might expect at least some gamma rays to escape, yet few to none are detected? Well, if you're talking NON-LENR conditions, i.e., ordinary conditions, then the ensembles are indeed fleeting, never interact with any gammas, which results in the gammas exiting the condensed matter and flying off to kill grad students! :-) But as I stated, > "Any method to create long-lasting (i.e., stable) > areas of quantum coherence (i.e., resonant antennas) > within condensed matter that hang around long enough > to get hit by quanta ejected from nuclear processes..." So LENR is creating conditions inside the metal lattice that cause the 'lifetime' of the ensembles to be much longer than normal, or possibly even to be stable to the point of continuous coherence over time, so (nearly) all gammas and neutrons deposit their energy on the way to the 'outside', and NOT all at once, but drained of numerous quanta and eventually all their energy into the lattice before they get to the edge. When the last quantum of energy is coupled into a resonant element, the gamma ceases to exist... after all, there is NO particle once the energy is transferred elsewhere; the localized, oscillatory motions of the vacuum are perceived as a particle when doing certain experiments/measurements, but there is nothing physical left separate from the energy. At that dimension and time scale, there is NO physical matter... only numerous oscillators coupled together in various and complex ways... which is also why QM (i.e., 'wave functions' and probabilities) does such a good job of describing things at that level. -Mark
