At 02:25 PM 7/14/2012, Eric Walker wrote:
Illuminating discussion of quantum tunneling. Â
This is a very mysterious subject.
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Axil Axil
<<mailto:janap...@gmail.com>janap...@gmail.com> wrote:
The fact that no radioactive isotopes are found
in the ash of the cold fusion reaction is
unequivocal proof that LENR is caused by the
lowering of the coulomb barrier and NOT a fusion process.
This overstates things. Â There are shifts to
radioactive isotopes in specific instances
following upon LENR, just not in the ratios and
at in the spectra that you would expect from neutron activation.
Eric
What's often missing in these discussions is that
isotopic shifts found in LENR reports are
generally at very low levels, far below the
levels at which (with PdD experiments), helium is found.
Signs of neutron activation are generally absent.
Neutrons have been found in some CF experiments;
the levels are even lower -- much lower -- than isotopic shifts.
It is obvious that in the Fleischmann-Pons Heat
Effect, the vast bulk of reactions only use
deuterium and create helium plus energy.
I prefer to avoid much speculation about other
environments, such as NiH, and consider that care
should be used to not assume that all LENRs are
the same reaction or reaction mechanism. Maybe
they are, but this is not actually a good
application of Occam's Razor, which is about
choosing the simplest explanation for a single
event or effect. If it works, great, if a single
explanation does explain well many effects,
Occam's Razor would favor it, but .... often the
attempt to explain everything with one mechanism
runs into complications, attempting to shoehorn a
boatload of effects in various environments into a single theory.
