Muons have a very low cross section and do not interact with matter much at all. That low reaction cross section is why muons are harmless to health, However, in the Cat and Mouse configuration employed in the Rossi’s SSM mode, something must be increasing that cross section by a huge amount. That increase in the level of the probability of reaction must be due to a quantum mechanical process. My guess the cause is coherence of the Cat. A Bose condinsate might make the Cat look like an atom that is many centimeters in size. The muon from the mouse can’t help but react with an atom that is that big. The same must be true of neutrinos. Coherence and entanglement might make particles that don’t usually interact with atoms always interact with SuperAtoms in a Bose condensate cause by quantum effects.
Just the muons and neutrinos that come to earth produced from cosmic rays might trigger nuclear reactions in a Bose condensate. Rydberg matter because of its coherence might be a great receiver for subatomic particles that don;t usually react at all. On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Here is another possibility involving the muon. > > Muon decay (Michel decay) consists of the almost immediate decay into an > electron, an electron antineutrino, and a muon neutrino. > > This happens after only 2 microseconds, which is too short for chain > reaction of muons* per se*, and therefore what we may looking at – for the > active propagator of LENR in not the muon but instead … the muon neutrino. > > We know that the electron antineutrino doesn’t help much in this regard, > since it is seen in beta decay and that kind of decay has been tried as > an accelerant in LENR -- but the muon neutrino is not as well-known. > > This particle does not have the short lifetime of the muon, but in the past > it was thought to be inert, like the other neutrino varieties. Perhaps > this variety of neutrino is, in fact, not as inert as the others in some > circumstances, due to some special property. The species was also once > thought to be FTL but that claim was presumably retracted … but maybe not > completely retracted. > > *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_neutrino* > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_neutrino> > > Anyway, the door is open for the possibility that upon the initial muon > decay in certain materials, the muon neutrino can somehow interact (in > what looks like a chain reaction) to create either another muon (which > happens in lead) or in other circumstances will end up supplying the > thermal gain which is seen. > > Stranger things have happened with neutrinos – which are still a great > mystery to science. > > *From:* Axil Axil > > As a way to shield muon radiation, the LENR reactor could be buried > underground in a silo with the depth of the hole determined by the health > effects produced by the expected muon flux… The flow of Muons from the > "Mouse" into the "Cats" in Rossi's Self Sustain mode (SSM) configuration > looks like an application of a muon chain reaction that you speculate > about. > > Ø > *http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic/posters/display.jsp?name=poster.lead.cool.man.data* > <http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic/posters/display.jsp?name=poster.lead.cool.man.data> > > Ø The Effects of Lead Shielding on Muon Counts…. If you are near a > LENR reactor, tt looks like lots of muons will get to and into the body. I > wonder if muons are harmful? > > Aside from the possible (likely) harm from muons, the curious and > disturbing thing about this paper is that the authors: > > 1) expected to see a decreasing rate of muon counts as more lead > above the detectors was added, > > 2) They were extremely surprised to see that when going from 15cm to > 20cm of lead, the count rate of muons actually increased > > 3) This data point was extremely unexpected. They had expected that > the rate of decrease of the muon count rates would have slowed, but the > last thing expected was for the count rates to actually increase. > > That is a lot of lead, first of all. Even then, it never blocked all the > muons. For the muon count to increase, with thicker lead, this means that > some kind of chain reaction is happening above a thickness level, but muon > keep progressing thought the metal. > > As an analogy – (of how LENR could benefit from this) consider the known > parameters of fission … a chain reaction of neutrons is the driver of > fission reactors, and thus the concept of a chain reaction of muons is > intriguing. Can muons be harvested? > > As for using this information in a practical manner, the main problem is > that tons of lead would be needed for even a small reactor - and in the > end – the question is whether they can be converted into energy. > >
