On Feb 2, 2014, at 9:39 PM, Eric Walker wrote:
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>
wrote:
These discussions about "suppressing" gamma rays and neutrons have
been around since the beginning of cold fusion.
It is true that some people in this thread have been arguing about
the suppression of MeV-range gammas. Like you say, this sounds
pretty far-out. Better not to have powerful gammas in the first
place. What is more interesting in the recent discussion is whether
p+Ni fusion is ruled out by the evidence, and that has been what has
absorbed a lot of our attention. If low-level penetrating radiation
is not allowed (e.g., photons in the keV range, some of which might
be considered "gammas"), then p+Ni is contraindicated, because
everything we know about p+Ni says that it will result in short-
lived radioisotopes and associated emissions after it takes place,
for a period of hours or days. If low-level radiation is allowed,
then p+Ni is not necessarily ruled out. That is the heart of much
of the recent thread.
Jones wants to say that there is no penetrating radiation whatsoever
in NiH. He no doubt has his reversible proton fusion in mind. Ed
wants to say that what low-level radiation there is above a very low
threshold is due to side channels (if I have understood him). He
has his hydroton in mind. I've argued that the evidence bears
otherwise on both counts, and that low-level penetrating radiation
is both seen and is perhaps inherent to NiH cold fusion and not due
to a side channel. Although this discussion might look like the
usual discussion about MeV gammas, really it has been a discussion
about short-lived radioisotopes that follow upon whatever it is that
cold fusion consists of. So we've been having a discussion that is
different than the usual "gamma" discussion. Rossi's terminology
confuses things, because he appears to refer to all photons in his
system as gammas.
Eric, I do not think all the radiation is from side channels. Most is
from the reaction producing energy. A little is from transmutation,
but not the Rossi kind because it does not occur, and a very little is
from hot fusion produced by fractofusion.
Ed Storms
Eric
