The Bumpy Road. The binding energy contained inside the nucleus is an uncertain thing; it goes up and down at the whim of quantum mechanics; it varies with the uncertainty principle. This energy is comprised of two parts: a real energy and a virtual energy. It is this virtual energy that can vary widely and is not constrained by the laws of energy and momentum.
When constrained inside the nucleus and when this nuclear energy is composed of these two parts get strong enough, it spills over the top of the coulomb barrier and forms a real particle outside the nucleus. This is quantum mechanical tunneling. The virtual part of this spillover energy only lasts for the briefest of instants and immediately goes away and only the real part remains to congeal into the newly radiated particle that has tunneled through the barrier. This process is called radioactive decay (AKA tunneling through the coulomb barrier). After this nuclear relaxation process, if the energy level inside the nucleus has been lowed enough so that it can never again surmount the coulomb barrier no matter how much virtual energy may appear, the element is said to be stable. In regards to LENR, we can draw and amazing and informative conclusion from this behavior of the nuclear reaction. The fact that no radioactive isotopes are found in the ash of the cold fusion reaction is unequivocal proof that LENR is caused by the lowering of the coulomb barrier and NOT a fusion process. That is, when the coulomb barrier is very low during the LENR moment, the energy in the nucleus is stabilized at the lowest barrier level in relation to the lowered coulomb barrier. Now when the barrier neutralization is removed and the barrier springs back to full power, the binding energy contained in the newly formed nucleus is completely relaxed in regards to the newly recovered strength of the coulomb barrier. Here is an analog from the real world to explain this principle. If you take a glass of water filled to the brim on a car trip over a bumpy road, the water will splash over the brim until water reaches a maximum level to where the water does not slash anymore. Now suppose you could magically reduce the sides of the glass to a low level when the bumpy trip first starts and the water level reaches this maximum no spill level, now you magically raise the sides of the glass very high again. No water will ever spill out no matter how bumpy the road gets. The water level in the glass is now forever stable. The nuclear binding energy excess produced by the LENR reaction is spread around the lattice to all the other members of the Bose-Einstein condensate, so both the new nucleus and the expelled particle(s) have little excess energy to dissipate into the localized lattice. These nuclear fragments part ways at a very slow pace with little disruptions on the other NAE around them. This is why a LENR reactor that contains a Lattice characterized by a Bose-Einstein condensate can operate for a lone tine: the nuclear energy that is released by the LENR reaction is delocalized throughout the lattice and the expelled particles have little energy to damage the area close to the NAE. The NAEs remain intact and the LENR reaction can repeat many times. When a condensate is not present, the LENR energy is localized and the lattice is destroyed. The LENR reaction will quickly stop as all the NAEs are cratered. Cheers: Axil On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:19 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Axil Axil's message of Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:03:34 -0400: > Hi, > [snip] > >You are right. They are in superposition. They are nowhere and everywhere > >at the same time: delocalized. > > > >This is why LENR gammas get thermalized. A fission reaction in a > condensate > >will spread its energy throughout the condensate, > > Most of the energy of a fission reaction is usually carried by the > particles. > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
