On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <a...@lomaxdesign.com>wrote:
We have not found LENR effects that produce much prompt radiation, or much > of any radiation. That's quite an interesting observation, itself. There > may be something about LENR mechanisms that suppresses unstable products, > that takes the reaction all the way to stable products (like helium) while > non-photon/phonon emissions remain at low levels. And the photons cannot be > high-energy, or they would easily be detected. > Note that there are multiple findings of collimated x-rays, which adds an interesting twist to the trail of evidence. > The fly in this ointment is that Be-8 has a normal half-life of a > femtosecond. It doesn't seem like it would have time to decay as described, > so the alphas would have *much* higher energy, and that *would* be > observed. You don't have 20 MeV alphas zipping around with no observable > effects. Even if there is no prompt gamma, there will be secondary > radiation, and plenty of it. This leads one to suspect that some of the momentum of whatever reaction is occurring is being shared with the heavier lattice atoms. Eric
