Here is something worth thinking about in the context of why nickel could be effective for creating a thermal anomaly (as seen in LENR) in the context of supersymmetry and the 750 GeV “big-god” particle. (let’s call it the “BG” so as not to offend). Admittedly, this takes SUSY to the extreme.
The simplest quantum dot is the FCC crystal, which is composed of 12 atoms in a cage around a single core atom – 13 in all. This is the FCC close-packed “cubohexahedron” which is the most common ideal crystal structure for transition metals. This stable geometry was the inspiration of Buckminster Fuller’s dymaxion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuboctahedron Nickel has an average molecular weight of 58.7 so 13 atoms in the most basic possible quantum dot of nickel weigh 763 amu and 1 amu = 931.49 MeV so the nickel quantum dot would be 711 GeV equivalent, which is a bit too light for the BG particle… … but if that quantum dot was made of the isotope nickel 62, it would be right-on for the BG – 751 Gev… most interesting, no? Wow, not only is it the correct value for BG cross-identity, this crystal is also a molecular boson composted of atomic bosons, composed of nuclear bosons. Heck, for all we know, the hydrogen in Ni-H reaction itself is superfluous, or merely helps to isolate the FCC crystal, and the nickel itself is the active ingredient :-) That would be a big paradigm shift for Ni-H –since the former catalyst becomes the active fuel and the former active fuel becomes the catalyst. --------------- I should have explained that SUSY is short for supersymmetry. Supersymmetry is a proposed type of spacetime symmetry that relates the basic classes of elementary particles: bosons and fermions… thus the speculation that there could be a fermion “relative” to the new boson which has special properties. Obviously, it would be unlikely to appear as a single particle. BTW – nickel could be a near fit … say, in a crystal of 12 atoms…[make that 13]
