There is another option, no involving CoE. The energy of two nuclei coming together is not conserved but, is very slightly depleted by strong force interactions (QCD color changes) loosing tiny amounts of mass.
In fact this is the most common nuclear reaction in the Universe – well over
99.99% of all nuclear reactions are
P+P <=> 2He <=> P+P
Approximate 10^20 of these reversible fusion/fission reactions are required
on our sun before a single reaction proceeds to deuterium. And most of the
time that deuterium is stripped back to a proton and an neutron before it
further fuses to stable helium. Otherwise, the “fuel” in our sun would have
been depleted billions or years ago.
It is a small step to imagine that magnons are released constantly during
this reversible fusion reaction- up until the point that the average mass of
protons is depleted to the point that gluons can no longer hold quarks
together, which triggers the rare beta decay of 2He -> deuterium.
Jones
From: Eric Walker
<[email protected]> wrote:
The energy of two nuclei is conserved and
remains small during the motion through the Coulomb barrier.
The
penetration through this barrier, which is the main obstacle
for
low-energy fusion, strongly depends on a form of the
incident flux on the
Coulombcenter at large distances from it. In contrast to the
usual
scattering, the incident wave is not a single plane wave but
the certain
superposition of plane waves of the same energy and various
directions,
for example a convergent conical wave.
I like explanations along these lines -- ones that don't
require slamming particles into one another at high speeds. In the end I
wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being something like what the author
seems to be getting at. Two analogies that come to mind: (1) when a large,
heavy object hits the water at high speeds, you get one kind of outcome, and
when it slips into the water at low speed, you get something else entirely.
Or (2), when you don't have a key, to get past a door you're going to have
to break it down, but when you have the key, it will open with little
effort. There may be something equivalent to an electromagnetic "key" that
amplifies the tunneling probability by several orders of magnitude for a
certain period of time.
I have no opinion about the details of Ivlev's theory.
Eric
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