In reply to Axil Axil's message of Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:51:43 -0400: Hi, [snip] >In this experiment, Piantelli removes one of his nickel rods from his >reactor and places into in a cloud chamber. This operation must have had to >take an extended period of time assuming the reactor is cooled down enough >to be disassembled. This means that the release of 6 MeV of cold fusion >reaction energy derived from the binding force of nickel after it is >transmuted into copper of a high energy proton takes a macroscopic amount >of time: taking from minutes to hours. > >What supports this delay?
First, you need to know which particles you are actually seeing in the cloud chamber. Are they positrons or heavier particles? If the former, then these are obviously from beta decay, and a delay is to be expected (half life). If the latter (or electrons), then the delay is more likely to be due to delayed entry of the proton into the nucleus than due to delayed particle emission from the nucleus. IOW the fusion reactions themselves are delayed, not the relaxation. This is to be expected as tunneling of the proton into the nucleus is a statistical process. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
