On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
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. > Interesting paper to briefly glance over -- I'm beginning to think that the formalisms are primarily useful *after* you have an idea of what is going on, at which point they help you to pin things down and derive anti-intuitive conclusions that can be used for falsification. But they're not yet needed at this stage in the theoretical exploration of LENR. This stuff is beyond my pay grade as well, but I'm willing to venture my own proto-theory: spin is central to LENR. There are bosons (spin 1) and fermions (spin 1/2). (I have no thoughts at this point on particles of more exotic spin.) Fermions keep apart and bosons tend to glob together. Fermions can be thought of as the constituents of matter and bosons as so-called "force carriers." Electrons and protons are fermions, so they do not collapse into one another. But if in the right circumstances you could somehow "rotate" the spin of the electron so that it was no longer 1/2, the electrostatic charges of the non-fermionic electron and the fermionic proton would cause them to be strongly attracted to one another; or, at least, not to be held apart if they should encounter one another. From there you would get a neutron, possibly at a greatly discounted cost -- you could get a handful of them for 20 cents each instead of 100 dollars. Any emitted gammas would bounce around hollow cavities in the cathode until they in turn bind together with a free electron and then reorient its spin, causing the reaction to continue. >From that point on, all kinds of consequences would ensue. Eric
