One final point on all of this relates to another elusive genius - JS Brown - and his "Superconducting Protons in Metals" arXiv:cond-mat/0504019v1
"The hitherto neglected phonon-exchange interaction between interstitial
protons in metal lattices is found to be large. It is shown that this effect
may give rise to a phase of protonic superconductivity, characterized by the
formation of Cooper-like pairs of protons, in certain metals at high
stoichiometric loading."
OK - The question arises - if there can be what is effectively "paired
protons" in a lattice, ostensibly acting as a unit - then what about the
possibility of going direct to tritium?
After all, this is thousands of times more likely than the proton pair
tunneling into a nickel nucleus (in terms of lower Coulomb repulsion).
This direct route would seem to have the great advantage of bypassing spin
problems, and of not requiring neutrinos to do it - depending on the
details.
As to the three body problem - maybe it is not really a problem since two
protons are already bound.
If we wanted to get really twisted here ... we could propose not only
Brown's paired-protons, operating a unit - but also to have them mate with a
Mills' hydrino hydride, at deep redundancy so you go all the way from
protons to tritium in a single step with charge and spin balanced.
Stanger things have happened.
But not much stranger :-)
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The next question is how much energy is really carried away
by the neutrino, when hydrogen fuses into deuterium, or is there another
route ? Can the net thermal gain be explained without "redundant ground
states" or is that too part of the setup for allowing lots of hydrogen to
fuse into deuterium?
It just gets curiouser and curiouser...
Jones
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