Sometimes I have similar feelings Eric. The evidence seems to suggest that He4 can form and release its massive energy in a milder manner than is typical. I suppose that we should be trying to understand why the normal fusion paths lead to the emission of a proton or neutron generally with the gamma as the rare case.
The behavior seen under hot fusion conditions is perhaps the strange one since He4 has such strong binding energy when compared against the two other main combinations. You appear to harbor the feeling that coupling to nearby fields might be the key reason for the vast difference and I likewise wonder. Hot fusion conditions are such that there are no nearby nuclei available to originate the coupling fields and there are certainly no heavy metallic ones to help. Some of the recent reports tend to suggest that very strong magnetic fields might get into the act, especially according to the recent demonstration by DGT. The strengths of these large external fields begs the question as to just how strong the components of the fields are at the atomic size range. Maybe they come into play at the extremes and allow the relatively large energy to be released into a much larger region than expected. What would be a better suppression technique than to eliminate the generation of the normally energetic gammas in the first place. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Dec 2, 2013 11:17 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: 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
