In reply to Eric Walker's message of Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:18:24 -0500: Hi, Perhaps more to the point, where does the energy come from to create the muon in the first place? A muon has a "mass" of 105.7 MeV. The only nuclear reaction that can produce that sort of energy in one go is a heavy element fission reaction. Even if the first one is a cosmic-ray muon, where do the rest come from? One muon can catalyze multiple fusion reactions, but these occur sequentially, and none of them release enough energy individually to produce a new muon.
>On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > >> D+D + muon ? helium-4 + muon (instead of gamma) >> >> where the fist muon can be a cosmic muon which can catalyze a reaction >> and then be rejuvenated, renewed or replaced by the same fusion reaction >> that it catalyzes. >> >> The muon is a heavy electron with a short life, but now we can surmise >> that it can have its lifetime greatly extended as part of the catalysis. The >> probability for this to occur is larger than zero, but how large? Maybe >> its pretty high says Byrnes. Can it explain the lack of gamma, as well? >> Probably. >> But now, as we are learning this rebirth effect will be more robust >> with SPP and fractional hydrogen. >> >A muon could possibly carry away as kinetic energy the energy that would >otherwise go to a gamma. But if we're talking about a single muon, how do >you propose that the spin of the missing photon is conserved? > >Eric Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html