It does seem like the experimental evidence is rolling in on the side of BECs, at least for the time being.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > Polariton are interesting as a major player in LENR. > > arxiv.org/pdf/1210.7086 > > A new quasiparticle formed from a hybrid electron/phonon combo called a > strongly coupled surface "plasmon polariton-exciton" modes (plexcitons) was > shown to exhibit Bose-Einstein Condensation. > > An extremely small plexciton mass makes this the warmest BEC condensate > yet reported. This extremely small mass explains the large plexciton > critical temperatures, which are ~2 and ~10 orders of magnitude higher than > in exciton-polariton and atomic systems, respectively. > > The effective plexciton temperature T and chemical potential μ extracted > from the fits are T= 2640 K and μ= -160 meV for Fig. 2c, and T= 1230 K, μ= > -70 meV > > This is beyond the melting point of most metals except tungsten and its > mates. > > Plexcitons could make LENR go. > > > Cheers: Axil > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Kevin O'Malley <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think maybe a hybrid of Chubbs' and Kim's theory could be very > compelling. > ***I think when LENR is finally figured out, it will be various elements > of several theories that form together the final puzzle. > Note that Sinha hints strongly that Mills's Hydrino theory might be > close. I think when this all gets hashed out, that it will be a combination > of theories. So the final accepted theory will be something like > Mills/Sinha/Widom-Larson/Horace Heffner/Focardi/Chubbs/Storms/whomever, > borrowing elements from each theory to piece it together. The biggest > pieces will come from Sinha. >
