On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 11:56 PM, P.J van Noorden <[email protected]>wrote:
Now comes the big question. Are there any new nuclear reactions possible > which produce for instance 4He without particles or gamma emission? > I'm thinking we've made the missing gamma problem harder than it needs to be. My guess -- there's genuine d+d and p+d fusion going on (as well as the occasional transmutation), and when a fusion happens, instead of the usual, slow gamma emission, there's a near-instantaneous transfer of electrostatic energy to the nearby electron cloud in the host metal. If this is what happens, the energy of the short-lived unstable daughter can be expected to be divided between a large number of surrounding electrons, giving rise to a bath of lower-energy photons rather than a single high-energy gamma photon, together with a near motionless stable daughter. Eric
