On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Bob Cook <frobertc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have had a similar notion relative to the Pd-D system. Specifically two > D come together to form a virtual excited He particle with high spin energy > that fractionates its high spin energy to electrons and other coupled > particles to attain the desired low energy associated with the stable He > particle. Only many low energy photons are involved. to balance the > lower mass of the He compared to the starting material. > Yes -- this is the system I'm rooting for right now as well in the context of PdD. This system is not too dissimilar from what I gather is Hagelstein's system, where the excited [dd]* resonance binds (indirectly) with the phonon modes, but instead of phonon modes, in this system the [dd]* is binding with sources of electrostatic charge (electrons and ion cores). One question I have is why Hagelstein has not explored this avenue. I will hazard a guess that it is because he wants an oscillator and coherent feedback, and this system does not oscillate and just dumps energy instead in one big transfer. Eric
