It's a nice process you are describing, but I'm curious how it can generate the mesons reported by Holmlid? Is there some mechanism based on this idea where mesons are produced or can they only generated by very high energy interactions with nucleons and require much higher energies than you are describing here?
> On 29 okt. 2015, at 19:53, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > > From: Bob Cook > Ø > Ø Fran and Jones suggested that the source of the excess energy described > by Holmlid is of a chemical origin (electronic potential chemical energy of > dense hydrogen) and not nuclear potential energy long ago stored in the > reactants. > > First part of answer: The Dynamical Casimir Effect was first observed in > 2010. It is real, but that does not necessarily provide all the answers. The > following is paraphrased from various sources. > > The basic concept for LENR, is that the electronic chemical energy of dense > hydrogen, with mass-energy in the range of 630 eV per H atom, is created by > DCE. One way this can happen is when SPP interact with a Casimir cavity or > pit. The electron becomes delocalized and possibly relativistic. > > However, it is also demonstrated by Holmlid that dense hydrogen can produce > strong nuclear or sub-nuclear gain in other circumstances, aside from > chemistry. Whenever gamma radiation is seen in an experiment, it is a good > indication of the “other circumstances”. The DCE modality only applies to > gain from chemistry and electron manipulation. The soft x-rays are easy to > miss. > > One of the predictions of modern quantum theory is that the vacuum of space > is not empty. In fact, quantum theory predicts that it teems with virtual > particles foaming in and out of existence. While initially a curiosity, it > was quickly realized that vacuum fluctuations had measurable consequences, > for instance producing the Lamb shift and modifying the magnetic moment for > the electron… and in Casimir force. > > This type of renormalization due to vacuum fluctuations is now central to our > understanding of nature….From early on, it was believed that it might be > possible to more directly observe the virtual particles that compose the > quantum vacuum, or convert them to real particles. 40 years ago, Moore > suggested that a mirror undergoing relativistic motion could convert virtual > photons into directly observable real photons. This effect was later named > the dynamical Casimir effect (DCE)…. we have observed the DCE experimentally > for the first time in 2011…. In addition to observing the creation of real > photons, the discoverers found two-mode squeezing of the emitted radiation, > which is a signature of the quantum character of the generation process. End > of paraphrase. > Ø > Ø Is the assumption that the laser pre-conditioning of the materials in the > Holmlid setup allowed the increase in potential energy of the reactants which > then is later released as EM radiation and hence heat? > > Yes. Most likely there would be a multi-stage process where the laser (or > another light source) creates SPPs over time, which then interact with > hydrogen in a Casimir cavity of 2-12 nm in dimensions. As it turns out, Shell > 105 catalyst is extraordinarily nanoporous. Like a zeolite, but > ferromagnetic. Curiously, Holmlid fails to realize this porosity connection. > > The net effect is that the electron which once had ionization potential of > 13.6 eV in the ground state has been boosted to 630 eV of binding energy by > the DCE. This is an energy increase of about 46:1 per atom and it is > chemical. But in effect, if the hydrogen does not escape, the energy which > can be extracted by chemistry is endless (if the source is the quantum > vacuum). > >
