RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

[Jones Beene]

 

 

From: Edmund Storms 

 

Bob, we are presented with a complex puzzle. A solution requires testing
possibilities against what is observed. A solution is made difficult if
mechanisms are proposed that cannot be tested. For example, spin coupling
can not be tested against what is known and, in addition, it is not found to
involve the magnitude of energy involved. The human mind can imagine an
infinite number of possibilities. Some way must be used to limit these
possibilities.

 

But Ed - it is far worse to attempt to rationalize a mechanism which we know
for sure cannot work, like P+P fusion to deuterium.

 

Essentially this explanation is dead-in-the-water on two fronts - the lack
of tritium, which must be there if the reaction can fuse two protons, and
the lack of 1+ MeV quanta.

 

Some kind of spin coupling is far preferable to a proposed reaction which
cannot happen.

 

Jones