[NewCandle] further adventures of pixie 23

[Nick Reiter]

Good heavens, Horace, that is some heavy work in progress!  I'm going to have to print all of it out and try to digest it over some time.  So much looks like it could be tangential.  Thank you for sharing this.

I know Sam Faile had some speculations along the lines of strange quarks and strange matter as being involved, but sometimes its best for me to step out of the way of theories-in-gestation.  I'll just run the experiments:)

Wonderful stuff though!

n

> The following is a work in progress,
> but it might give you some ideas regarding sustained
> reactions in Al with loaded hydrogen plus a neutron
> source.  There may be a high energy electron or gamma
> reaction with the adsorbed hydrogen that can chain with 12%
> extra neutrons, plus any neutrons from muon catalyzed
> fusion, to sustain a brief quasi-chain reaction that
> amplifies the ordinary neutron production from the U, but
> which has significant high energy signatures of its own.
> 
> Cold Fusion Associated Nuclear Reactions
> 
> DEFLATION FUSION
> 
> Any theory that is to describe low energy nuclear reactions
> (LENR) has to explain not only how the Coulomb barrier is
> breached, why high energy particles and gammas are not seen
> from hydrogen fusion reactions, and why the branching ratios
> are so skewed, but also why almost no signature, including
> heat, is seen from heavy lattice element
> transmutation.  It appears unlikely that this can
> happen without the presence of one or more catalytic
> electrons in the mix which highly de-energize the fused
> nucleus.  If a nucleus is not highly energized to begin
> with, then there is no need to figure out how high energy
> products are absorbed by the lattice.  Such a tightly
> bound state of hydrogen is defined as a deflated hydrogen
> state. Deflation Fusion, a process whereby a ground state
> electron