Speaking of Ni isotopes... Axil mentions Ni64 and Ni62 in this LENR context ... Is it significant that the Higgs mass is close to twice the average mass of nickel? An alloy of copper and nickel can be produce which is essentially identical in mass to twice Higgs.
Coincidence of irrelevant ? There does not appear to be good commentary on the mass similarity of Higgs vis-a-vis a copper nickel alloy - at least that I can find. But if this mass value is/was significant, the "old guard" in LENR should look more closely at tellurium... especially alloyed with nickel or nickel-copper. That is because a second glaring coincidence along these lines is that the mass-energy of an isotope of tellurium being almost the same value as Higgs (~ 125 GeV) and twice that of ideal nickel or copper-nickel. Best of all - Low power laser irradiation seems to be a way to exploit the 'coincidence'. See below. This could point the way to actually being able to engineer the Higgs boson despite the low lifetime. https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-have-discovered-a-new-kind-of-higgs-relative-sitting-on-the-tabletop Axil Axil wrote: Particle physicists have an issue with our universe, it is not natural. This wildly unnatural universe is at the bottom of our cold fusion experience. The improbable existence of our universe is what makes cold fusion possible. Our reality is setting on the knife's edge of existence. A minimal increase of the Higgs field will push the universe into disaster. Our universe is within a hair's breadth from destruction [snip].. the nickel isotopes became more enriched in Ni62 and Ni64. Ni61 also showed a great deviation from the normal isotopic distribution. These isotopic shifts showed redistribution of neutrons among the nickel atoms, yet no neutrons were ever detected during these reactor runs. ; The old guard cold fusion meme cannot explain how this change in isotopic distribution could happen. The fusion nuclear reaction does not affect isotopes, it only affects the number of protons and neutrons inside a nucleus. As I have shown previously, this change in isotopic distribution comes from slight changes in the masses of the up and down quarks in protons and neutrons.
