As a thought experiment I asked myself, "What would I observe if DDL state hydrogen was ubiquitous?". What follows may be naive, please feel free to say so.
We have talked about creating and/or using DDL state hydrogen as part of LENR, but if this DDL state exists as has been described, DDL hydrogen (we can call it Df/H) may be very stable because it cannot interact with photons. It is of such small size that it would readily pass through containers and equalize the pressure on the inside and outside. It would be very difficult to create a pressure difference in the ubiquitous gas. Because of this, we wouldn't see pressure effects of this as a gas. In an RGA, it wouldn't show because you wouldn't be able to produce the ionized species to accelerate. In effect, it could be all around us and within condensed matter in arbitrary density. So how could it be detected? You might compare Df/H to a gas of stable neutrons. If stable neutrons could exist, they would cause spontaneous isotopic shifts from thermal collisions with atoms. The neutron gas density would decline and one would observe isotopic shifts. But Df/H gas would not behave as neutrons - once the Df/H began to penetrate the electron cloud of another nucleus it would experience a smaller Coulomb repulsion [than H] and would still provide a largely elastic collision. However, it seems that Df/H could still cause spontaneous isotopic shift/transmutation from nuclear reactions that would statistically occur in some thermal collisions - at a much greater rate than with H. Could such thermal collisions with a ubiquitous Df/H be responsible for observed but unexplained spontaneous radioactive decay? What other behaviors would be expected of a ubiquitous Df/H gas? What would refute its existence? Bob Higgins
