Mark, Yes - the "energy localization" aspect of Ahern/Dicke/Preparata and the superradiance modality could apply to any secondary reaction which benefits from local mechanical pressure at the nm geometry.
However, the "NAE" implies a nuclear reaction, which may not be necessary.
The absence of gamma radiation presents the prima facie case that no
traditional nuclear reaction takes place. The is no good reason to propose a
known nuclear reaction, if good alternatives exist, which is the case.
Ahern and others, including Mitchell Swartz seem to be leaning towards an
explanation where thermal gain is QM-based and mediated by spin dynamics -
which involves the "magnon".
The source for energy mediated by magnons can itself be nuclear or
non-nuclear. This is where semantics enters the picture - but one is on
firmer theoretical ground using QM magnons as an operative modality - rather
than LENR "cold fusion".
The magnon is a "Goldstone boson" (wiki has an entry) and can turn up in
both magnetic anomalies and nuclear anomalies. It is spin based. The magnon
can be said to be the quantum of spin.
Actually "subnuclear" is the preferred semantics for the ultimate energy
source for magnons since pions are themselves pseudo-Goldstone bosons, at a
minimum and there are no other "nuclear" indicia.
When the nucleus is involved via a magnon modality, mass will be converted
into energy in smaller packets, and without a change in the identity of the
nucleon. That is the key semantic difference between "subnuclear" and
"nuclear".
Thus, we can propose using the term "subnuclear energy" to describe magnon
mediated conversion, instead of "nuclear energy" since the later almost
always implies an identity change in the nucleus (and larger packets of
energy).
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From: MarkI-ZeroPoint
If this sort of thing is happening in or around the NAE,
whatever they turn out to be, then it could very well explain how the
Coulomb barrier is overcome...
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From: Jones Beene
In pursuit of more evidence for the ~300 eV photon - in the
sense of it being the active energy transfer particle for the Rossi effect,
another curiosity turns up - the water window. This is a favorable scaling
region at the border of EUV and x-radiation for near-coherency and
transparency. The wavelength is around 4 nm in the spectral region between
the Carbon and Oxygen K shell absorption edges.
The Rossi effect does not employ planned coherency it would
seem, unless AR is cleverer than anyone imagines. However, from the earliest
days, Dicke superradiance was thought to be involved in LENR in a causative
way, even if inadvertent. Preparata expanded on this - and it was called
DPSR or Dicke-Preparata Superradiance. Ahern calls it "energy
localization"....
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