-----Original Message----- From: Harry Veeder > P+P->2He->P+P
If this reaction is always exothermic, wouldn't this mean the average the mass of the proton is decreasing with time? Harry, Yes, exactly - but even a tiny fraction of ~1GeV per atom can provide tens of thousands of times more energy than chemical and yet without transmutation. The underlying hypothesis for ultimate gain is mass-to-energy conversion, but with little or no fission, beta decay, non-reversible fusion, or transmutation. The proton mass is not quantized and is in the vicinity of 938.272013 MeV on average. In QNF, this value becomes what is really an "average mass," with expected variations higher and lower. Imagine a bell curve of mass around the average of 938.27 MeV with one or two MeV either way. The "overage" fraction is in play for conversion into energy - via QCD and Goldstone bosons which convert to magnons. It could amount to a third of all the atoms. When depleted the average mass of hydrogen will have been reduced to may ~937 MeV. That is what makes the theory falsifiable. This becomes the mystery energy source for Ni-H reactions, whether they be from Mills, Rossi, DGT, Piantelli, Celani, or Thermacore and more to come. BTW - this particular solar proton reaction produces it tiny excess by quantum spin - and it takes approx 10^16 reversible reactions to provide every eV, but fortunately, they can happen sequentially at approx 10^20 times per second. Jones
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