On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote:
In terms of LENR. why is it important to have the spin of the nucleus > affect the elections? ... IMHO, the spin of the nucleus must be 0 for LENR > to occur in that nucleus. Moving spin from the nucleus to the elections > gains us nothing. > There's two different contexts in this thread. One is the original context you provided, which is that the spin of the nucleus is somehow important to making LENR happen (I have no opinion on this question). The other context is one that Bob has suggested, which is that spin coupling might be able to provide a channel from the nucleus to the electrons through which the energy of a gamma transition can be dissipated. In the first context, it might not matter whether the possible spin interactions are bidirectional. In the second context, the possibility is that the energy of a fusion might flow out of the compound nucleus and thermalize through excitation of the electrons via spin coupling, in which case it's important that the nucleons be able to transfer energy to the electrons. Eric
