I've a problem with the W&L theory. I read carefully their published paper
http://newenergytimes.com/v2/library/2006/2006Widom-UltraLowMomentumNeutronCatalyzed.pdf and I found what seems to me to be a major flaw. I'm sure I'm totally wrong but I would ask you to check. It is only arithmetics, no advanced physics. My attention was catched by Eq. (25), where an electric field around one million of millions V/m appears. Too much, I told myself. As a comparison the proton induced electrical field at a Bohr distance is only about 10 to minus 7 V/m, that is 18 orders of magnitude less. So I checked the calculations starting from Eq. (23) where the electric field is 4 times proton charge divided by 3 times Bohr distance to the third power, all multiplied by a term, under square root, that represents the proton displacement during its oscillatory motion. In Eq. (25) a term equal to the Bohr distance is transported under the square root. So the term to be evaluated reads: 4 |e| / 3 a^2 This term provides us with a numerical value equal to 7.63 V/m, that is 11 orders of magnitude less than the value appearing in the paper. That turns out to be a huge problem for the authors, since the threshold criteria for electron capture Eq. (6) and Eq. (27) are no more satisfied by a large amount and the ultra low momentum neutron plus neutrino pair can not be produced. Is anybody here that can confirm or disproof my calculations? Best regards GDM
