Does anybody know why the establishment did not invoke the P-O stripping reaction to explain the fusion of two D atoms in the original P-F experiment? It seems that if it were known that D could fuse with C-12 to form C-13 it would be possible for two D to back up to each other, neutron to neutron to fuse to the more stable He-4 entity. Stripping would not be necessary--only getting the neutrons close enough to bring the strong force into range. The magnetic field strength for this to happen may be important to align the D’s up properly in the center of the Pd or Ni bcc structure. Mu metal may be important in obtaining the necessary B field to do the alignment, as Jones has alluded to in the past. Rossi and Focardi hit upon this idea.
Bob Sent from Windows Mail From: Eric Walker Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 9:46 AM To: [email protected] On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: stripping implies a multiple reaction mechanism where one neutron produced in the first reaction is used by a second reaction. ... We would expect to see loads of free neutrons floating around waiting for the second reaction to begin. Please be so kind as to provide further documentation of this assumption. From what I read of the O-P process, it all occurs in a single step (see the "Mechanism" section, towards the end): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer%E2%80%93Phillips_process Eric
