From: Eric Walker
…. no less than eleven LENR experiments in which gammas were
produced, in two cases from an Ni-H system. The detail that is remarkable
is that the levels are well below what would be expected for the energy that
is produced...
The best explanation for this phenomenon has evolved here on vortex over the
years - from Robin, myself and the others who have followed Mills’ work, but
are not shy about merging CQM into a bigger picture by cherry-picking its
relevant details. Mills himself is a “gamma denier” :-) at least publicly -
but that is most likely a legal ploy - to distance himself from LENR when it
comes to Intellectual Property.In a hybrid Millsean understanding, gammas and especially soft x-rays in the range of several hundred eV up to 10s of keV range are expected. Hard gammas are not expected. These softer gammas happen on the statistical end (Boltzmann’s tail) of ground state redundancy. They represent a small proportion of net energy. Hydrogen past a certain level of redundancy can continue to reduce its effective diameter to a much lower geometry auto-catalytically, if it is not sequestered. The gammas seen will typically account for a few percent of the net energy – and are evidence of run-away hydrogen redundancy. Most of the excess energy – upwards to 99% of the net energy of the process, is derived from UV and EUV as Mills proposes; and the few gammas seen are an unwanted side effect. The reason that only a small percentage of ‘shrunken’ hydrogen goes this route is simple. As its radius shrinks, hydrogen develops extremely high magnetic susceptibility, and in the presence of ferromagnetic electrodes (or even paramagnetic) the species becomes sequestered within the inner orbitals, and can no longer absorb EUV radiation to further shrink. Even paramagnetic electrodes will inhibit runaway. UV and EUV radiation is where most of the activity happens in Ni-H. Gammas are incidental, but they cannot be ignored. Unlike W-L theory or Brillouin, this is NOT primarily a weak force reaction but that is easy to confuse since a few transmutation products are indeed beta emitters. Actual transmutation is more likely with non-ferromagnetic electrodes like tungsten, as opposed to nickel. See the Cirillo paper for what can be expected with W. BTW - if one wants to prove this kind of Millsean-based explanation to skeptics - and by including a gamma signature which can be predicted ahead of time, a suggestion is replicate Cirillo and do so by continually removing electrode surface layers over time and accumulating that as your evidence. You will most likely find significant rhenium-187 which is an ideal proof of transmutation, since it is itself radioactive- but with a long half life (and predictable decay fall-off rate) and an unmistakable beta signature, which is low enough to be considered relatively safe (banana range). Plus rhenium is so rare, otherwise, that when you predict it to transmute from tungsten - and it shows up - not just in elemental analysis but with its own beta emission signature - that is extremely convincing. Jones
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