Eric, your description is basically correct. However, you are not
aware of all that has been observed and reported. In addition, the
role of transmutation in producing radiation is only now being
realized. The small amount of radiation is real and important to
understanding the process. However, it is not what is expected from
hot fusion.
CF is not like any nuclear process that has been observed or explained
in the past. We are looking at an entirely new phenomenon. Physicists
simply have not realized this fact. They keep tying to fit the process
into their models based on how hot fusion behaves. What is worse,
people apply ideas to CF that are in basic conflict with how nature
normally behaves. CF is not an exception to what we know. Is simply a
phenomenon that has been overlooked and ignored in the past because
conventional "theory" said it could not happen. (Yes Jones, this
incorrect theory is based on QM.) We only need to make a few changes
in conventional theory to fit all the observation into one
understanding.
Yes Eric, local energy can be released so rapidly, that local melting
can occur. This only happens where the concentration of NAE is very
high, as a result of the random distribution of NAE on the surface
creating a few hot spots. The fact that melting is possible shows that
energy can be generated by CF at temperatures up to the melting point
of the surface. However, this temperature is much less than the
melting point of pure Pd. This is an important conclusion having an
impact on how the theory of the process has to be structured.
Ed Storms
On Dec 22, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Eric Walker wrote:
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 1:36 AM, John Franks <[email protected]>
wrote:
Really, the MB distribution should allow for these outliers then CF
would be happening with a non-vanishing probability.
I think you're referring to what goes on in nature, outside of CF
labs, on the assumption that cold fusion does not occur? If so,
this I do not think that we can peremptorily rule out cold fusion
occurring in nature at this point.
I am still struggling with the putative process and the result,,
which should give off gamma rays, neutrons and locally vaporise the
lattice.
There are several results -- the results that physicists insist
should be seen for CF to be real (1), the results that explanations
should be aiming to handle (2) and the results that are actually
observed (3).
Results that physicists have insisted should be seen in cold fusion:
copious gammas, neutrons, fast charged particles, byproducts
commensurate with the known branching ratios.
The results that explanations should be aiming to handle: the
results that are actually observed in the lab (3) and not the ones
that physicists insist should be seen (1).
The results that are actually observed:
evolution of heat out of a system beyond what can be chemically
stored within it if it were, for example, a container of petroleum
fuel or a very high-capacity battery;
a very small number of gammas and charged particles, several orders
of magnitude below what would be needed to account for the
calorimetric measurements;
in PdD systems, 4He embedded within the outer layers of the Pd
cathode in amounts beyond those seen in controls;
in PdD systems, off-gas that includes an amount of 4He above
background levels commensurate with the heat measured if there were
d(d,ɣ)4He fusion reactions going on.
in NiH systems, apparently heat, no gammas, and transmutations
(beyond this, we don't know much).
An important point to emphasize here is that there are very few
gammas and fast particles. This is what is observed. The basic
facts that an explanation must contend with (assuming there is only
one), then, are heat beyond what is seen in known chemical
reactions, and no gammas and charged particles above a very low
threshold. There are also interesting observations of tritium and
transmutations, but these observations seem to be quite context
dependent.
Several studies have documented lattice dislocation sites and whole
regions that have been vaporized. Mizuno includes an interesting
image of one vaporization site on the cover of his book [1].
Eric
[1]
http://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Transmutation-Reality-Cold-Fusion/dp/1892925001
