From: Bob Higgins
However, my understanding (and my differential equations study is many years old) is that with the addition of special relativity effects, the system is no longer linear. Thus, the eigenstates can no longer be used as a complete orthogonal basis for the general solution. It doesn't necessarily mean that the eigenvalues are wrong, only that they cannot be used in linear combination to form the general solution. Bob, although you may not have intended it this way, your post made me think of an even better-fitting scenario for describing the details of hydrogen oscillation, and for supplying thermal gain, instead of Mills permanent fractional state. Imagine that there is no lasting state of redundant orbitals as Mills claims, but also imagine that the electron of the confined hydrogen atom oscillates through redundant ground states and can, on occasion, be reduced to the lowest 1/137 orbital - and then reinflate almost immediately. This would be symmetric for energy balance - on every other reduced orbital but the last, and in most oscillations, there would be no gain. However, this deep orbital is only a few Fermi in distance from the nucleus. The electron is relativistic and heavy when it gets there. Coincidentally, the strong force it is 137 times stronger than electromagnetism, and if the strong force were to exert a bit of extra pull on the electron in the last orbital, then the electron becomes even heavier. The electron will then be able to give up more energy on reinflation than it borrowed on redundancy. Thus the extra energy comes from the strong force, and from proton mass. The gain is 3.7 keV at this final orbital which matches the “dark matter” signature but in a way that has been missed by Mills. This viewpoint keeps the gain as “nuclear” and avoids invoking ZPE, which is a turn-off for many observers. It also avoids Mills theory and most other LENR theories. Therefore, it pleases very few of those who have a pet theory to promote ... Jones
