-----Original Message----- From: Bob Cook Jones--nice work--
This is not to much different from my original guess as to the reaction of d-d in Pd matrix. Only I guessed the resulting He nucleus was excited in a high spin state and fractioned the energy by spin coupling to the other particles in the system. Bob, I agree that the two are very similar except for one big detail. Spin coupling is a major part of the picture, and we should strive to firm up the details wrt the Lamb Shift. For instance, when we have protons and a ferromagnet (nickel) together, can the two elements spin-couple to continually power an asymmetric Lamb shift with nothing else (like real fusion) or does the mass-loss have to derive from a more dramatic event? The problem with D+D going all the way to fusion to helium in LENR as the main source of gain is that the resultant energy quantum is so very large - that an excited spin state cannot be relied on to give that energy up in very small fractions - at least not every time with few exceptions. Even if this worked 99 times out of 100 there would be more than enough deadly gamma radiation, in the times it did not downshift completely - to be problematic in a kW level device. Leakage will happen. > I did not know about quantum gravity ideas nor the Lamb shift. This is actually the first time it has all come together in a succinct package with the diproton reaction, and with a large bit of mainstream literature backing, in the relevant details. The Lamb shift is usually not considered relevant to LENR since the energy value is low per instance. I do not think that many theorists have reasoned that a "ringing-Lamb-shift" which is happening at THz frequency is a different beast. Names that turn up in a Google search for past advocacy are Biberian and Myron Evans. Jones
