It might be correct to say that there is one basic cause with many possible effects.
Take the acceleration in the decay of radioactive isotopes. Such an effect is a hard one to explain. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:27 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> In his Arata replication, Ahern found that an alloy of mostly nickel >> with less than 10% Pd takes up more hydrogen than Pd alone. >> > > This is interesting. But now we're talking about an Ni-Pd alloy, and > neither Ni nor Pd. Perhaps there is a mismatch of some kind that causes > the lattice spacing to increase. > > >> This is yet another reason, one of many - why consideration of all the >> evidence, giving no preference to Pd-D, points to many different routes to >> gain in LENR. >> > > Sure. It would seem that there are different reactants and byproducts in > NiH and PdD; for example, in the case of PdD we know about 4He and > occasionally tritium, and we have no evidence that I know of for either of > these in the case of NiH. I still see similarities between the two > systems, though. My working assumption is that both NiH and PdD (as well > as W, Ti, etc.) involve fusion in some way. Both are without gammas. Both > are systems involving hydrogen and transition metals. There's reason to > think that reactions in both systems occur at the surface or near it. None > of this is to say that there's not a complex series of steps involved or a > large parameter space. But I have not seen any compelling reason to > conclude that the systems are different at a basic level, and much to > suggest that what is at work in both of them is similar or analogous, with > different inputs and different parameters which influence the outcomes. > > Eric > >
