Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> The cold fusion reaction must be the same for all systems if we look deep > enough. > > > > That is absurd. > > > > There is not the least bit of evidence for that proposition. In fact, the > evidence points to perhaps a dozen energetic reactions of hydrogen when > loaded into condensed matter. > There may be no evidence for this, but it seems likely based on what McKubre calls the conservation of miracles. That is to say, it is not likely that there are many different, totally unrelated, heretofore undiscovered ways to generate nuclear reactions in a metal lattice. It seem intuitively likely that all of these methods are somehow related at some level. That is not to say they all work the exact same way for all metals and for both hydrogen and deuterium. You can compare this to combustion, which works differently with different materials. Sometimes it produces smoke; sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is rapid in an explosion, sometimes slow. As Chris Tinsley often pointed out, taking a broader view, you can even say that metabolism is a form of combustion. Both processes start with the same chemicals and produce the same products, which means they produce the same amount of energy per gram of reactant. They are different in many ways but fundamentally the same. As is rusting or any other oxidation, I suppose. - Jed
