Jones-- You sound like you must be Dan Brown in real life.
Bob Cook -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 10:50 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:The Rossi effect as an Inverted Mossbauer Effect Dyslexic correction of previous post: "In contrast, Ne-10 does not keep boron from having an isotope at 10." This should be "In contrast, B-10 does not keep neon from having an isotope at 20." And yes, there are other reasons why helium has special stability in the periodic table, so this is not a particularly strong metaphor - but it does suggest that there are indeed forbidden isotopes at a few specific atomic mass levels - which are in effect "reserved" by other elements, such as in the case of He-4 which keeps Be-8 from stability. If there were not an LENR connection, this would be the end of the story but there is more. For instance wrt the Rossi effect, 100% of cobalt is amu 59 which seems to be "reserved" by cobalt (element 27). IOW - this isotopic level - amu 59 - belongs to cobalt, even though Co is to the left of nickel in the PT, which is element 28... and nickel's main isotope is Ni-58 - which is one of the few instances in nature where a lighter amu element follows a heaver one (as the main isotope). Notably, Ni-59 decay is gammaless. However, this is not the nickel Mossbauer isotope which is Ni-61. Nickel seems so commonplace, at first ... so few-cents-worth - yet this element has 7 unusually strong physical anomalies, which could relate to LENR and in comparison with other metals is an oddball. The 7 anomalies. It is ferromagnetic, has a Mossbauer isotope, has the heaviest stable isotope (as a % of the most common isotope Ni-58 vs Ni-64), is lower amu than the next lower mass z (the most common isotope is lower amu than Co), has the highest innate stability (Ni-62 has highest binding energy per nucleon of any known nuclide 8.7945 MeV), has an unstable isotope with gammaless decay - and has two adjoining Rydberg levels in electron orbitals. Wow. Could this all be coincidental? What's in a name? The German word "nickel" came from "Old Nick" which was a name for the devil; and the reasons for that historic association are arcane ... but in the modern day context of LENR, where the devil is in the details - let's just say nickel may be our Maxwell's demon. The unification of good and evil, no less?
