There are half a dozen new papers out this summer on various physical aspects of the neutrino - the elusive "ghost particle" of physics which was once an abstraction (lest we forget). The neutrino was invented with no evidence in order to "balance the books" of energetic stellar reactions. Nowadays, almost everyone (except Don Hotson) agrees that the neutrino has mass detectable on earth (formerly it was thought to be massless). More on integrating Hotson's view (and the zero point field) with neutrinos - later.
This effective level of neutrino mass has strong implications for dark matter, due to the incredible neutrino flux... as well as implications for anomalous earthly energy. BTW the solar neutrino flux is estimated at a minimum of ~ 3.5 billion/cm^2/sec up to 200 billion/cm^2/sec. Even the low estimate is mind boggling in terms of how much energy is available on the capture and conversion of a tiny percentage, and we do know that some elements capture a few (very few). Best I can tell, the consensus for neutrino mass in 2013 is about half the value which was being floated around in 2010, which was an upper limit or .28 eV/c^2. This is complicated by the fact that various neutrinos have differing masses but can "flip" - which itself seems to violate CoE. Anyway, the most interesting factoid about the value of neutrino mass for LENR, and especially in the context of the Rossi HotCat are the "coincidences". The HotCat is the first devices which seems to work in a very robust manner at a peak photon resonance in the infrared range ... and around a wavelength of slightly over 10 microns. This wavelength just so happens ... drum roll ... ta da... ... to "coincidentally" be in a range where plasmon/polaritons are known to form, which happens "coincidentally" to be the value of the blackbody emission spectrum of planet earth, which happens "coincidentally" to be a range of mass-energy corresponding to ... you guessed it ... the solar neutrino. All of these details are connected at ~10 microns wavelength, hot-but-not-too-hot. Maybe it is too soon to connect the dots? (quantum dots indeed) It is worth mentioning the implications of one possibility - that the plasmon/polariton operates as an effective "antenna" for capturing a small fraction of the massive solar neutrino flux- since this would help to answer the major question of how Rossi can achieve so much thermal gain with zero gamma radiation. Even if true, this antenna-like function is not enough, since any IR emitter should show gain at 10 microns, and we know that is not the case. So if it is not thermal gain which is captured by plasmons/polaritons, then what is it? More on that later, but if you guessed that polaritons interact with neutrinos in something akin to [mass <-> charge] interaction, then go to the head of the class. That would be where the polariton gets it huge electric field. Jones
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