Dave,
I’d like to get it published when completed. This first came up in regard to a hypothesis for reversible proton fusion (RPF) which is not ruled out, but does not fit the circumstances as well as spin-coupling. In fact RPF could precede spin-coupling, in the sense of being causative. As you can see, it is more complex than just variable proton mass. Anyway, the bottom line for LENR with protium is that hydrogen from a few sources can provide as much as 15-30 keV per proton in net mass-energy, available for conversion by spin coupling with no identity change in the nucleon (there is no permanent fusion or transmutation, but the energy is nuclear). Of course, only a fraction of any population of protons will be “heavy” enough but the extra mass of the tail of that fraction can be up to 100 keV per proton. From: David Roberson Interesting information Jones. Do you plan to distribute your paper within this list when complete? It might help our understanding of the true proton mass and it's potential of being the source of LENR. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Aug 9, 2014 5:36 pm Subject: RE: [Vo]:A good analogy for nanomagnetism From: Eric Walker * The wiki article gives the proton (rest) mass as being 938.272046(21) MeV/c^2 * If this value is accurate, at that precision I believe we have +/- 1 0.21 eV to use for free energy speculation. That is CODATA. Of course, it is no less accurate than any of the others. Unfortunately, it is no more accurate either. How can it be when quarks have variable mass? For instance, Jefferson Lab uses the value of 938.256 MeV. Other Labs, especially overseas have their own values. Some are measured, some calculated, some averaged. I’m in the process of a paper on this, but I can tell you – I have high level estimates within a range, and am convinced that there is at least 70 ppm which is in play, as excess above a median value. That can be called a narrow range, or a wide range, depending on one’s mindset. The only value not in dispute in 2014 goes to the first four digits - 938.2xx MeV … almost everything thereafter, in terms of mass variation, is in play. In fact NASA put men on the moon using a value that was pretty way off from what is now considered reliable. Jones
