String theory is finally getting to the stage where predictions can be made based on its unique insight of nine "original" spatial dimensions - of which only three were expanded, "in the beginning" leaving the other six still there and relevant - but "enfolded" as fractals. Importantly, there is a "cutoff" in terms of a threshold size range, below which we have nine dimensional relevance, and it could be very important to understanding the excess energy of Ni-H.
Plus, it is not "all that small"! http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1540 String Theory was one of Fred Sparber's prime interests, when he was still with us. Actually, he still is - in the sense of the "smile of the Cheshire cat" another favored Sparberism. I've been getting glimmers of that smile in recent weeks, not only from the wet moon, aka Cheshire moon - but from recent attempts to grasp the basics of QCD. One insight that is becoming apparent - is that we are developing a whole field of new science around the proton, and only the proton. String theory is in its infancy but it ties in with super-symmetry and is just now getting to a level of usefulness. Of course protons are most of the known Universe, so why should they share the stage with other negligible forms of mass? And the fact that everything so far in string theory is based on the proton at TeV (tera-electron-volts) means only that "purr power rules". One TeV is a trillion electron-volts, which is both large and small, since although it is less than a microwatt, about the kinetic energy of a cat's purr, they can add up fast. Another possible insight - the cutoff (threshold) for "enfolded dimensions" has a strong connection to the infrared. Coincidentally or not, strongly enhanced infrared emission in the range of ~400-500 degrees K appears to be a trigger for the Ni-H effect. I am calling this phenomenon the T-effect or "Thermacore effect" (not the Rossi effect) since Thermacore was the first to demonstrate and patent the anomaly in the early 1990s (and since Mills explanation may be completely wrong). In QCD and the T-effect, we are talking about excess energy coming from protons mass (or gluino color change) instead of from shrinking orbitals. A big smiley in the night sky: http://tulipthicket.blogspot.com/2012/01/cheshire-cat-moon.html
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