At 01:35 AM 12/27/2011, Charles Hope wrote:
On Dec 26, 2011, at 22:10, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]> wrote:
> Then there is that pesky Coulomb barrier. What I found, though,
was that there was ample opinion among quantum physicists that it
was possible that the unexplored conditions of condensed matter
just might provide some pathway around that, some kind of tunneling
or alternate reaction. Recent work has actually predicted fusion
from a physical arrangement of deuterium that *might* be present,
quite rarely, in highly loaded PdD. That's using, apparently,
standard quantum mechanics, but that theory is as yet unverified.
Oh? Citation, please?
Akito Takahashi, multiple publications, going back into the early
1990s. For example, see "Study on 4D/Tetrahedral Symmetric Condensate
Condensation Motion by Non-Linear Langevin Equation," Akito Takahashi
and Norio Yabuuchi, in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Sourcebook, ed
Marwan and Krivit, American Chemical Society and Oxford University Press, 2008.
See also the Storms review, which mentions this work, "Status of cold
fusion (2010)," Naturwissenschaften, October 2010. For abstract, see
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20838756, for a preprint, see
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEstatusofcoa.pdf
As to the opinion of quantum physicists on the possibility of there
being unknown effects in the solid state, there was a recent revision
of a textbook on solid state nuclear models, and it has a section on
LENR, and it turns out that the author had written something pointing
to the lack of "impossibility" back around 1990. I went around and
around all this on Wikipedia. Bottom line: don't bother me with
facts, I'm a grad student and I know quantum physics, and it says
it's impossible.
Of course, it doesn't.
