Jones: I gather I don't really understand what you're getting at. My responses are designated by 4 embedded asterisks****.
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Kevin O'Malley > > It is fact that LENR is not and cannot be a known fusion > reaction, since it is fact that no known nuclear fusion reaction is gamma > free. > > ***Isn't Reversible Proton Fusion (RPF) Gamma free? It's > the most common fusion event in our solar system. I thought you were the > one bringing it up every so often as a plausible theory... > > Cough... cough. Yes and Yes and Yes. But there is a "timely" caveat. > > ... is reversible fusion really "fusion" when the fusion bond lasts for > only > a few femtoseconds? > ****My impression is that this is enough for the Sun to generate photons, Helium, and other stuff. Now, maybe that's only because it is so huge compared to the earth, but it is also gaseous, where we're dealing with condensed matter. > > Can we not agree that there is a fundamental difference between fusion > which > is permanent and fusion which is transitory? ***Perhaps that fundamental difference is between gaseous state and solid state... or even the proposed 5th state of matter: BECs. Basically, this is your main statement that I do not understand. > Therefore RPF is not really > heavy-duty fusion-fusion, only FINO fusion (fusion in name only). > > That is my answer and I'm sticking to it... > ***Perhaps RPF is nature's way of desperately seeking equilibrium. Once fusion has taken place, it wrestles with the outcome until the atoms are in their most restful state, which could even be partial hydrogen...
