On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wrote: > > What I would love to see are some (very) simple statements that all can >> agree on that, if tested and found conclusively true or false to everyone's >> satisfaction, would help to sift between the competing explanations. >> > > I offer one such possible statement as an example: > > - Ionization of the atomic hydrogen or deuterium required for a > LENR-type reaction to proceed. > > This seems like something that could be tested with one or more clever > experiments and found to be false. It would probably be harder to prove > that it is true, but that's generally the case with any proposition, so I > don't think it should be a problem here. > > Storms mentions four proposed limitations to any theory: > > - Neutrons do not initiate cold fusion reactions. > - Spontaneous local concentration of energy cannot be the cause of > nuclear reactions. > - Compact clusters of deuterons cannot form spontaneously simply by > occupying sites in palladium that are too small to permit normal bond > lengths. > - For energy to be released from a nuclear reaction, at least two > products must be produced. > > I like these proposed limitations, since they can all be true or false, > but a reservation I have is that some or all of them are quite general and > possibly hard to test. What would be nice is a set of statements that are > very concrete and testable. > I am just writing bout some similar ideas. For Pd-D LENR *testable *is a poisoned word. Peter > > Eric > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
