In reply to Eric Walker's message of Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:02:40 -0700: Hi, [snip]
The time period is irrelevant. At some point the reaction is going to stop, and when it does, some of the intermediate nuclei should be left. There is then also the question of why the reaction stops with what appears to be the final nucleus. In this regard, I think that Ed is correct. All of these problems are avoided if multiple deuterons react concurrently. That might happen if they are already bound into shrunken molecules, and an entire molecule reacts with a target nucleus. However I would expect this form of reaction to apply primarily to protium rather than deuterium, because I would expect deuterium to react to 4He before if got a chance to react with another element, whereas an even number of Hydrinos (protium based) bound into a molecule (or molecular cluster if you prefer), would need to undergo a very slow weak force reaction in order to fuse internally. In this case fusion with another nucleus already containing one or more neutrons becomes the more likely reaction. Bottom line: As far as nuclear reactions are concerned, I would expect D to produce mostly 4He, and H to produce mostly transmutation reactions. >On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >it remind me the observation of Iwamura as noticed in the book of Ed >> Storms, that transmutation seems to be the fusion with an even number of >> deuteron (2-4-6), with preference to stable isotopes. >> > >Ed draws the conclusion that the only way that these transmutations can >occur is through the simultaneous capture of several deuterons in a single >reaction. The reason he gives is that the species that would involve a >single capture are not observed. I think this is doubtful reasoning. > There could be other reasons that the species are not observed. I do not >discount the possibility of simultaneous capture, but it is certainly not >the first hypothesis I would investigate. I would start out assuming that >there is pile-on -- i.e., first a deuteron is captured, then another, then >another, etc., over a relatively short period of time. > >Eric Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
