On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 10:45 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: Typical separation distances within a lattice are on the order of 1 > Angstrom. It > takes light 3E-19 seconds to travel this distance. > Typical nuclear reaction times are order 1E-23 seconds. I.e. 30000 times > faster. > In short, long before another atom at normal distances could help out (or > even > knew his brother was in trouble), either T or 3He would have been the > result of > D-D fusion. >
Very interesting. Maimon proposes that the two d's encounter one another at 100 fermis (0.001 angstroms) from the palladium nucleus. Something tells me that is not close enough given this ratio; perhaps there's a sufficient spread in the probability distribution of the reaction times to make fusion non-negligible? Eric
