From: Terry Blanton * Or exactly, what is space and time: http://goo.gl/8HE7P ?
Here is a bit of insight from the article that could be helpful, and could even relate to Ni-H (not sure if spinors are part of the mystery or not): "Spin is perhaps best thought of as the degree of rotational symmetry. The electromagnetic field along with its associated particle, the photon, has spin-1. If you rotate it 360 degrees, it looks the same as before. The gravitational field along with its associated particle, the graviton, has spin-2: you need to rotate it only 180 degrees. The known particles of matter, such as the electron, have spin-1/2: you need to rotate them 720 degrees before they return to their original appearance-a counter-intuitive feature that turns out to explain why these particles resist bunching, giving matter its integrity. The Higgs field has spin-0 and looks the same no matter how you rotate it. In Vasiliev theory, there are also spin-5/2, spin-3, spin-7/2, spin-4, all the way up. Physicists used to assume that was impossible. These higher-spin fields, being more symmetrical, would imply new laws of nature analogous to the conservation of energy, and no two objects could ever interact without breaking one of those laws. END OK - here is where it gets interesting. If there is a "spin connection" to Ni-H it could be to 61Ni. It has nuclear spin 3/2 and unusual NMR properties. Magnetism appears to be an issue in triggering the Ni-H reaction (Ahern's "nano-magnetism") Before, when we have talked about nickel isotopes being responsible for the gain - 64Ni was of greatest interest in being the active isotope (if there is only one active isotope). This is due to its singularity as the heaviest isotope in the periodic table (in terms of ratio to the most common isotope of the element). However, there are many studies on spin anomalies in 61Ni. Here is background with formalism: http://www.ejournal.unam.mx/rmf/no503/RMF50313.pdf The paper touches on the cross connection to spin ½ particles. The proton of course is spin ½. Understanding this well enough to write down a coherent explanation of "how it applies to Ni-H" is beyond my pay grade, but I have a hunch that higher-spin fields could be involved. "If only" Julian Schwinger were here to weigh in. He was the expert on spin-3/2 fermions. Wouldn't it be a hoot if Julian's famous "alpha/2pi" value figured into this somehow. "Neither a true-believer nor a disbeliever be." Good advice. http://www.infinite-energy.com/iemagazine/issue1/colfusthe.html
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