In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Tue, 29 May 2007 12:28:49 -0800: Hi, [snip] >Regarding D + Pd cold fusion cathode conditions, Hora and Miley write >[1]: "The screened deuterons are mutually repulsed by their Coulomb >field at distances less than 2 pm, but thanks to their screening are >moving like neutral neutrons. Any attraction by the Casimir effect >[29] is too small. But calculating the gravitational attraction for >the deuteron masses at the 2 pm distance arrives at values of about >ten times higher energy than the thermal motion at room temperature. [snip] The gravitational energy between two deuterons at a distance of 2 pm is 2.3E-33 eV. This is about 1E31 times less than the kinetic energy at room temperature. Methinks the authors slipped more than one decimal.
Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.
