From: Eric Walker
Jones Beene wrote:
My only excuse will be to say that if nuclear fusion ... is
proved then it will consist of two simultaneous miracles.
Yes -- agreed.
Yet in November, if Mizuno backtracks and sez… oops... we
had a bad meter earlier - and there really was helium, then mea culpa.
I don't think we need to detect helium to have "fusion" (in
a manner of speaking) -- we could have a nucleon capture of some kind as
well, leading to spallation and so on.
Spallation events would have been detectable before now, if they were
happening. The major “blind spot” in prior radiation testing has been the
x-ray range below 10 keV. Spallation and the O-P effect involve much higher
energy than the blind spot.
Helium is relevant to PdD systems (and possibly NiD systems,
I suppose).
Curiously, helium can technically result from a non-fusion event in either
system.
Alpha decay is the best example of that. Therefore helium alone does not
signal fusion. If we were to find that LENR involves a new form of alpha
decay from an element like nickel, not known to be in that category, then
that is NOT gammaless fusion.
As an example - it has been mentioned before that iron has two stable
isotopes that are exactly an alpha particle of mass-energy removed from two
corresponding nickel isotopes. How this could be accomplished is anyone’s
guess, but it is a physical certainty that it would not be fusion; and…
cough, cough … there is the claim of finding iron in the ash of the Rossi
reactor.
Jones
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