-----Original Message----- From: Harry Veeder http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/WL/WLTheory.shtml
Harry - let's count the number of miracles required for this to happen: quote Allan Widom and Lewis Larsen propose that, in condensed matter, local breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation occurs in homogeneous, many-body, collectively oscillating patches of protons, deuterons, or tritons found on surfaces of fully loaded metallic hydrides; Born-Oppenheimer breakdown enables a degree of electromagnetic coupling of surface proton/deuteron/triton oscillations with those of nearby surface plasmon polariton (SPP) electrons. Miracle 1 - SPPs couple with photons of light to become activated. There is little or no light in electrolysis LENR experiments - but some light exists in plasma glow or Mills reactions. If W-L want to cover electrolysis, then they should demonstrate the reality of light photons, which are absent. Blackbody radiation is not sufficient. "Such coupling between collective oscillations creates local nuclear-strength electric fields in the vicinity of the patches." Miracle 2 - "Nuclear strength" is MeV. There is no evidence of MeV fields or even keV fields. These would be easy to document if they were present. Nuclear-strength electric fields produce x-ray radiation which is largely absent. "SPP electrons bathed in such high fields increase their effective mass, thus becoming heavy electrons." Miracle 3 -Heavy electrons can apparently form near absolute zero, and then rarely - but there is no evidence of them forming at all at elevated temperature. "Widom and Larsen propose that heavy SPP electrons can react directly with protons, deuterons, or tritons located in surface patches through an inverse beta decay process that results in simultaneous collective production of neutrons Miracle 4 - There is no known EC reaction with hydrogen - that is an absurd invention which is completely without precedent. "Widom and Larsen propose two, or three neutrons, respectively, and a neutrino... Collectively produced neutrons are created ultra-cold; Miracle 5 - neutrinos are rarely captured in matter. This is even more outrageous than miracle 4. "Widom and Larsen propose that such neutrons they have ultra-low momentum and extremely large quantum mechanical wavelengths and absorption cross-sections compared to "typical" neutrons at thermal energies." Miracle 6 - There is no evidence of this kind of neutron in all of physics - and ultracold neutrons, which are well-known, are not similar to the W-L concoction; but they should be if this proposal were to be taken seriously. Finally, Widom and Larsen propose that heavy SPP patch electrons are uniquely able to immediately convert almost any locally produced or incident gamma radiation directly into infrared heat energy, thus providing a form of built-in gamma shielding for LENR nuclear reactions. Miracle 7++++ - This is completely beyond belief. There is no evidence of gammas being converted to infrared in all of physics. Many observers who have followed LENR from the beginning are rightfully left in a state of what can only be called "disgust" at the shameless hucksterism (and attempted alteration) of established physics on display here. Heck ... one or two miracles should be enough for any theory, no? Jones
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