From: Guenter Wildgruber
The LENR crowd is split on the issue:
a) the ones welcoming transmutations without recognizing
what a can of worms would be opened by that
b) the others claiming only 'soft' transitions like Ni->Cu
There is a much deeper split than this, Günter - and in fact the transition/
transmutation of nickel to copper is closer to hard than soft if we use
~1MeV as the crossover (depending on the isotopes).
Anyway, in the soft category, you have the EUV transitions of Mills, or else
some form of the ZPE/Casimir explanation ... or .. most insightful of all, a
combination of the two, such as found in Fran Roarty's blog. He suggests
that the driving force for hydrogen redundancy is a dynamical Casimir
effect, and it can be a continuing energy sink.I am amazed that observers so frequently will marginalize this explanation: the dynamical or relativistic Casimir effect, while at the same time admitting that the Ni-H reaction happens at what are exactly Casimir dimensions. Why not connect the dots? It is almost as if they think it could be coincidental that Takahashi could not get consistent results at 20 nm, but when he went on to try Ahern's 10 nm powder, got his best results- as he stated at ACS last year. BTW - Ahern saw zero gamma radiation. Then, there is the newer (older) explanation: the DDL (deep Dirac layer) which itself can be compatible with a relativistic Casimir effect. The DDL of Maly predicts a fast electron on decay, so it is harder radiation than Mills, or else it could result in a cascade or electron avalanche which is softer but should show some gammas. Curiously this is precisely in the spectrum that Bianchini/Levi was looking at, in Rossi's original demonstration (the positron spectrum). Why were they looking there? I never looked closely at that data, if it was even released - since it was said to be "near background". Now I am wondering "how near"? Even if not statistically relevant, in terms of a high sigma statistical deviation - what was seen could represent the tip of an iceberg, if most of the DDL electrons ended in an Auger cascade, or something similar. Still, in the end - the "coincidence" of FRET/Casimir geometry along with no gamma radiation, is too much to overlook, if searching for the best available explanation. Say, did anyone ever determine if "woomera" was our old pal Greg? Jones
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