On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Nigel Dyer <[email protected]> wrote:
I was not aware of anything in the definition of LENR that says that it > has to be solid state. Some of the better public examples at the moment > are solid state, but I am aware of other systems that appear to be low > energy nuclear reactions which appear to use other substrates, and I see no > reason to have to invent a different term just because it is a different > substrate. > I agree. I'm hopeful that the Papp reaction will be found to be real and that it will be shown to have the same mechanism as or a similar one to PdD and NiH LENR (assuming these have comparable mechanisms, which I do). For now I'm happy to cede to a distinction that limits LENR to a solid-state substrate. But I will not be surprised if this ends up being a category error, sort of like putting penguins into one biological class (water birds) and all other birds in another (land/air birds). Eric
