*However, I will declare a possibility: continued research into PdD *will* resolve the mystery of cold fusion. It could happen accidentally at almost any time, some researcher could stumble across evidence that leads to the solution.*
The neutron is transmuted into a proton by pions that are instantiated out of the vacuum by a strong magnetic field. That must be the way that 2D (two protons and two neutrons) becomes 4 protons. On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > Two things. Deuterium stripping – if that is one of the operative gain > mechanisms would still release lots of neutrons to be detected external to > the reactor. Notice that the nickel cross-section for neutrons is basically > rather low. > > > > Secondly, however, the Mizuno reaction releases approximately two protons > for every deuteron, not one as in stripping. > > > > That would imply that the neutron decays, instead of being absorbed in > nickel or something similar which gives about twice the number of gas > molecules as before. > > > > Also – there is a long half-life associated with nickel following neutron > activation. This will be easy to characterize, for Mizuno - if that is what > is happening. > > > > *From:* Eric Walker > > > > Jones Beene wrote: > > > > Since Yoshino did include slides showing > the neutron cross-section of Ni58, the implication is that neutrons have > been seen. > > > > I think the slides showing the neutron-cross section were hinting at the > class of (X)Ni(d,p)(X+1)Ni reactions (which are generally exothermic), > where a proton is expelled in a deuterium stripping reaction. If this is > the correct interpretation, there would be no neutrons to detect. It would > be the protons that would be detected, i.e., in an increase in molecular > hydrogen correlated with a decrease in molecular deuterium. > > > > Note that the change in species does not appear to have been well > correlated with excess heat, as the change was seen in both the trial and > the control (as noted by Bob). > > > > Eric > > >
