Re: [Vo]:The non-problem of a "new reaction"

2010-05-06 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:37 PM 5/6/2010, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to mix...@bigpond.com's message of Fri, 07 May 2010 09:22:28 +1000: Hi, [snip] Oops, I got this wrong. I used the total energy when I should have used the FWHH, which I don't know, however a rough idea may be obtained by assuming the same

Re: [Vo]:The non-problem of a "new reaction"

2010-05-06 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:22 PM 5/6/2010, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: The problem I have with Takahashi is that Be8 is itself unstable, with a very short half life. Therefore, I would expect excited state Be8 to have a very much shorter half life, particularly given the huge amount of energy available compared to t

Re: [Vo]:The non-problem of a "new reaction"

2010-05-06 Thread mixent
In reply to mix...@bigpond.com's message of Fri, 07 May 2010 09:22:28 +1000: Hi, [snip] Oops, I got this wrong. I used the total energy when I should have used the FWHH, which I don't know, however a rough idea may be obtained by assuming the same ratio of FWHH to total as for the ground state. Th

Re: [Vo]:The non-problem of a "new reaction"

2010-05-06 Thread mixent
In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:15:50 -0400: Hi, [snip] >So, how do you get there? Well d-d fusion remains some kind of >possibility, but something very strange is going on if that's it. I >prefer to look toward some process that forms Be-8, with ordinary >photo

Re: [Vo]:The non-problem of a "new reaction"

2010-04-01 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:38 PM 4/1/2010, Jones Beene wrote: -Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax > "The skeptics assumed that if helium were being generated, it would be easy to detect the associated gamma rays, so most ruled out helium from the start. That, simply, assumed deuteron fusion, D+D, tw

[Vo]:The non-problem of a "new reaction"

2010-04-01 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax > "The skeptics assumed that if helium were being generated, it would be easy to detect the associated gamma rays, so most ruled out helium from the start. That, simply, assumed deuteron fusion, D+D, two deuterons, one helium nucleus resulti