It more complicated than that. SOMETIMES there is no high energy relaxation of the excited nucleus and sometimes there is. The miracle must explain how thermalization of high energy nuclear events turns off and back on based on a unique condition or a sensitive parameter associated with the miracle.
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FocardiSevidenceof.pdf Evidence of electromagnetic radiation from Ni-H Systems. >From the reference shown below for your convenience. Discussion and conclusion We have presented experimental results for photon emission observed in three different experiments performed during a preliminary preparation step of a Ni-H heat production system. In this section we briefly reconsider the main phenomena detected in all these experiments. First experiment A fast loading of hydrogen was observed (a typical loading is shown in Fig. 12) which involved large gas quantities. Radiation was emitted in an early time with peaks that showed low intensities for few days and extremely low intensity for 40 days. It disappeared before the beginning of energy production. No neutron emission was detected during this experiment. Figure 12. First experiment: a fast loading, large decrease of pressure with characteristic time of 1.8 hours. Moreover, excess heat was observed [11-13] that persisted for 22 days with a energy production of about 35 MJ. After the experiment, nickel samples were analysed with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) to investigate morphological and elemental difference from a blank sample. The measurements were performed by using an energy dispersive X-ray system for elemental analysis. *The most interesting result is shown in Fig. 13: new elements (Cr and Mn) were detected in a wide region of a sample.* Figure 13. First experiment: surface analysis of a nickel sample performed by using SEM X microprobe (electron gun at 20 kV) on 200 × 200 m2 windows. Empty circles indicate an analysis of an unaltered surface on the nickel sample, which is indistinguishable from analysis on a blank sample. Full squares indicate an analysis on a wide altered region. The large peak on the right comes from nickel. Second experiment A slow loading of hydrogen was observed (a typical loading is shown in Fig. 14) which involved small gas quantities. Radiation was emitted early in the run with peaks that showed high intensities for many days, they decreased slowly and persisted for 78 days (26 in H atmosphere). No neutron emission or excess heat production was detected during this experiment. No quantitative changes were detected in surface analysis. Figure 14. Second experiment: a slow loading, small decrease of pressure with characteristic time of days. Third experiment A very slow loading of hydrogen was observed which involved very small gas quantities (few tens of mbar, characteristic time of weeks). Radiation was always present with peaks that showed low intensities. A thermal excitation provoked a transient increasing in radiation emitted. A spontaneous increasing persisted for weeks. No neutron emission or excess heat production was detected during this experiment. On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > Robin, > > Rhetorical question ... We've been over this many times, yet a few > observers > continue to believe Rossi/Focardi must have got it right: that nickel > transmutes to copper, despite the lack of evidence for that proposition and > the nearly insurmountable evidence against. > > The copper in the ash (seen by the Swedes) comes from electromigration, > since it is in the natural isotopic ratio, which makes it strong evidence > against transmutation, not for transmutation, as is Rossi's contention. > Electromigration is mundane and expected. > > The natural ratio of copper is well known and comes from the multi-billion > year old supernova event which created earth, and it would be unimaginable > that modern QM or LERN reactions can recreate this primordial event > precisely at low energy, since the parameters are so extremely different. > Thus the need for another miracle, if you believe AR. > > Even with a specialized detector, Bianchini did not find positrons > significantly over background. This almost guarantees the Ni->Cu > explanation > is incorrect, as well as the W-L explanation being incorrect ... as well as > the DDL explanation, as well as P-e-P->D. > > ... unless of course, you want to add yet another miracle - "miracle" > being > a new physics explanation... which is suppression of gammas. A "natural > ratio" of copper in the ash would make it three separate miracles which are > absolutely necessary for Rossi/Focardi. > > The net effect of this composite physical evidence, even if incomplete, > leaves as the best viable explanation requiring only one "miracle" > ("conservation of miracles" criterion) ... some version of the > Casimir/ZPE/Mills explanation, as last man standing. > > IOW - there is extremely low gamma radiation and extremely low > transmutation, but lots of heat. The process of elimination should suffice > for now, when there is too little solid evidence to back three miracles, > instead of one... so to speak. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > > 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? > > Because 98% of the time, the Copper isotope Cu59 decays via positron decay > with a half life of 81.5 seconds. Cu59 is what you get when you add a > proton > to Ni58, which is the principle constituent of Ni. > > Hence the transmutation that Rossi claimed was happening should have > produced copious positrons, which in turn would have annihilated ambient > electrons resulting in pairs of 511 keV gammas, which is what they were > looking for. > > >
