Thanks for the posting Jones... One of the KEY elements to the referenced paper is a specific resonant condition... which is exactly what I've been saying for years. That (or those) resonant condition(s) are exceedingly rare in normal matter, but when they do occur, throw the standard model out the window! The impossible suddenly becomes possible...
There have been a number of recent theoretical papers by people who are outside the LENR field... thus, this is a positive sign that the theoretical 'world' is beginning to take this seriously... granted, this may not be coming fast enough for those of us who have followed LENR since the beginning, but as more competent theoretical outsiders jump in the frying pan, the more it will attract attention and that can only help... albeit, slowly. -Mark _____________________________________________ From: Jones Beene [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 5:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Vo]:RE: Proton Mass not stable? http://www.scribd.com/doc/139182265/Theories-of-variable-mass-particles-and- low-energy-nuclear-phenomena "Theories of variable mass particles and low energy nuclear phenomena" Published by Mark Davidson Conclusion of Paper: "We want to emphasize that there is no direct experimental evidence yet that masses of electrons, nucleons, or nuclei can change significantly in a condensed matter setting.... Nevertheless, it is this author's opinion that Fock-Stueckelberg or other type of off-mass-shell theories are a possible explanation for such variations and that all of the experiments in LENR can potentially be explained if they are occurring." This is a very deep paper and Davidson is careful to spread the credit around and not ruffle too many feathers, even though his conclusion essentially devastates most the popular theories for LENR, when taken to the limit. He is probably too circumspect and one hopes that there will be more from Davidson. Apparently, using the old Fock-Stueckelberg theories mentioned (circa 1941), opens up modern solutions for the relativistic bound state problem and so on (as we are hearing again in the Higgs discussions) providing an understanding for gain in LENR without the need for fusion (but he does not really want to go that far in the paper)... but we also realize that a generalization of Maxwell's theory is required in order that the electromagnetic interaction be incorporated into the theory which it has to be. The resulting broader theory involves a fifth gauge field... shades of Kaluza's conclusion - and he was saying this twenty years ahead of F&S. Theodor Kaluza was an extraordinarily genius - possibly on the same level as Dirac and Einstein, if not higher. But that is a discussion for another day. Anyway... there could be an echo in the recent threads ... or is that the 800 pound gorilla in the closet? (make that 125 GeV)...anyway, it looks like we are back to the some version of a fifth dimension in order to adequately explain LENR, not to mention the Higgs... which is sure to engender the usual negativity. In a way, it could be looking more and more like the billions spent on LHC may yet have some kind of surprising payoff for understanding LENR, but we are not there yet. What an irony if it plays out that way. As for now - perhaps we can sum up best by pleading the fifth. :-)
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