Hot Electrons Do the Impossible - Plasmon-Induced Dissociation of H2 http://www.princeton.edu/mae/people/faculty/carter/EAC-267.pdf
Did I explain this to you before? On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wrote: > > For this reason, people proposing a p+p reaction of some kind in the >> context of LENR ... (Widom and Larsen) >> > > That was a little poorly thought-through. Widom and Larsen are not > proposing a p+p reaction. They're proposing a p+e electron capture > reaction, which also relies upon the weak interaction. Apparently the weak > interaction can be sped up if the mass of the electron is increased, and > this is what I think they are trying to do. I assume that if the electron > mass cannot be increased through the local concentration of energy (as may > argue is impossible or ill-conceived), the weak interaction will proceed > slowly and cause the difficulties I was getting at. > > Eric > >
