All the evidence that I have gleaned from the examination of many examples of LENR systems and their general behavior leads me to suspect that the underlying causal mechanisms of LENR involves gradualism.
It looks like the positive charge that powers the repulsive force of the coulomb barrier that protects the nucleus is lowered in a continuous fashion rather than a binary on/off manor. The assay of the LENR ash products show indications that a wide range of both weak and strong nuclear reactions occur in the same system. Helium is energetically easy to produce. But elements heavier than iron require lots of power. In stellar transmutation, nuclear fusion stops at iron but elements heavier than iron are formed in the very high energy stellar explosions of a supernova. The character of the LENR reaction shows that the intensity of the causal mechanism of LENR at the most fundamental level, the nuclear level can be tuned and controlled as a smooth function from almost imperceptibly weak in some instances to extreme intensity in others. Sometimes this gradualism in causal intensity all happens in a single system whose behavior can range from very weak when the reaction is difficult to startup to very strong during wildly uncontrollable intense meltdown. I am now referring to what sometimes happens to the Ni/H reactor type. On the nuclear level, there must be only one LENR causal mechanism. Any successful LENR theory must explain how this nuclear reaction gradation in LENR occurs in any flavor of the many LENR systems that have been experimentally shown to exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric-field_screening Based on the astrophysical based Trojan Horse effect (Fermi-Thomas approximation), Kim’s optical theory associated with the Ni/H reactor accounts for gradualism in LENR as a function of the number of electrons (screened Poisson equation)that shield the nuclear charge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screened_Poisson_equation Kim’s theory is predicated on the theoretically unexplored or the currently scientifically unrecognized effects of electromagnetism (EMF) on the nucleus. Are these effects electrostatic, magnetic, or a complex combination of both electrostatic and magnetic superposition of their combined wave forms? I suspect that magnetic effects associated with the optical theory are involved because there has been a recent discovery of a like magnetic effect that suppresses the charge of the electron, the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE). The FQHE also applies gradual magnetically based screening as the magnetic intensity increases on the topologically constrained electron ensemble. In FQHE electrons start to become bosons in a gradual fashion as paired magnetic vortex based waveforms bend into the electron waveforms. Here too in LENR, both topologically constrained electron ensembles in the Nanoplasmonic solution(hot spot) and intense vortex electron currents inside the solitons that produce extreme anapole magnetism are both involved. How EMF can affect the strong force is new physics in the context of the standard model of subatomic fermionic particle interactions. In point of fact, the Aharonov-Bohm effect lends insight to this quantum situation http://www.unice.fr/DeptPhys/sem6/2008-2009/PagesWeb/Phoenix/pdf/ABPR.pdf Significance of Electromagnetic Potentials in the Quantum Theory This effect points to an electromagnetic potential (an energy field) as opposed to EMF (The derivative of the energy - a force field) that is involved in quantum mechanical LENR nuclear interactions. Things get increasingly more complicated and obscure as we zoom in ever closer to the internal nuclear processes that drive nuclear activity in LENR. New physics is afoot and it will be a load of fun trying to figure it all out. On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > The past of our field will continue to have problems, > its present is chaotic enough, but it's future is in good hands and > brain(s). I know this after a historical (for me) meeting this week, as > related here: > > http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2013/09/defkalions-heni-architect-has-visited-me.html > > Peter > > > > -- > Dr. Peter Gluck > Cluj, Romania > http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com >
