On Dec 27, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
At 01:43 AM 12/27/2011, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote:
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
> I'll comment on it: he went on to say, but it isn't fusion.
>
> That's apparently because he's swallowed, lock, stock, and sinker,
> Widom-Larsen theory, and isolated, idiosyncratic attempt to
"explain"
> LENR by coming up with even more preposterous hypotheses, none of
> which have been tested and shown to be of predictive value.
Abd,
If you reject W-L theory, what would you regard as the most
reasonable
explanation for all of the transmutations reported? Is there a
particular
paper that you could recommend. I'm too overwhelmed by the
complexity of
solid state reactions to take any side in the controversy.
Transmutations are not observed with any clean correlation with
excess heat. Some experiments produce more, some less. Levels of
transmuted products other than helium are produced at far lower
levels than helium, many orders of magnitude lower.
This is far from true. Transmutation products have been detected by
chemical means, and XRF. This requires large quantities of product.
This is one of the great mysteries of LENR - the vast amount of
nuclear reactions involved in heavy element transmutation, without
the corresponding excess heat. It is explanation of this
experimental observation that is one of the strong points of
deflation fusion theory.
The initial energy deficits in heavy element transmutation, due to
the trapped electron, are typically very large. This is due to the
large positive charge of the heavy nucleus involved. See:
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/dfRpt
for many examples. For Rossi E-cat related examples see:
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/NiProtonRiddle.pdf
The large initial energy deficit makes follow-on weak reactions
likely, involving the trapped electron(s) when energetically
favorable. Most of the reaction energy, about 99%, is carried away by
neutrinos in the case of the follow-on weak reactions. This, plus the
initial energy deficit, is why heavy element LENR often produces no
observable excess heat. This was discussed with references on page 1
of:
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/CFnuclearReactions.pdf
This lack of corresponding heat from heavy element transmutation,
required by and corresponding to the mass deficit change, is also why
the huge amount of transmutation that occurs was such a surprise to
Bockris and others when it was first observed. Explaining this is
one of the strong points of deflation fusion theory. It is an even
stronger argument for deflation fusion theory than the fact it also
explains the change in branching ratios in D+D fusion, and the 10^-8
ratio of n/T observed in some LENR experiments.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
