On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: I agree, however I think the claim was that they do lose a significant > portion > of their own mass, though I'm not at all clear on how that is supposed to > happen. >
This is how I understand Ed's theory. The mass-energy that is converted to low energy photons is from the nucleons themselves, as they slowly fuse into either 4He or D. The process is supposed to occur gradually, somehow. The image I had was of the nucleons slowly sliding together along a single dimension and yielding mass as they go in the form of photons. (This obviously sets aside the usual considerations about the strong force and coulomb repulsion.) I don't think Ed was necessarily claiming that the method of energy loss was > through conversion of electron mass. In fact I didn't notice any > explanation at > all. I don't recall a specific explanation for this particular step, either, except that Ed believes the behavior of the nuclei within the hydroton to be a completely different from that in normal fusion, made possible by the unique context of the "nuclear-active environment." Eric
