On Dec 17, 2011, at 12:00 AM, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint wrote:
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This ties in with Alchemy as well, and the very difficult time LENR
scientists had with repeatability... conditions HAVE TO BE JUST
RIGHT, or
else the effect does not manifest.
This should tell you something about this kind of downshifting
theory, as well as the Chubb theories, and W&L theory. In many cases
the LENR reactions have been determined to occur at or very near the
surface. This presents two major problems: (1) there is not enough
material between the reaction site and the surface to screen gammas
by the means suggested, and (2) the surfaces of cathodes are
typically very dirty, hardly a pristine lattice.
Proof of the ability of a very thin film surface layer to screen high
energy gammas by collective action should be relatively easy to
obtain. All that is required is a an x-ray tube, an x-ray flux
meter, and an x-ray transparent medium on which the surface film is
deposited and operated under the proposed conditions.
Cold fusion as been proposed to be enhanced by nanostructures. A
surface layer of nanoparticles one deep should be capable of
producing LENR. If so, such a layer should not be capable of
suppressing MeV level gammas - yet it should be feasible to test for
high energy particles or gammas. I know of no one proposing a
collective action which bridges nanoparticle gaps.
I think it is much more probable that high energy nuclear radiation
is suppressed or downshifted before it leaves the reacting nucleus
excited state. It seems to me the state of nuclei undergoing LENR is
necessarily de-energized a priori, i.e. before the energy of fusion
is released. An obvious mechanism to achieve this a priori de-
energizing is one or more electrons in the reacting nucleus before
the nuclear reaction occurs.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
