Horace Heffner wrote:
A gravimagnetically bound mirror nucleus would make the spin radius of a
normal nucleus look unusually large.
Well getting back to D2O and the possibility that ...
IF - when all is said and done - (big IF) it then becomes apparent that
a high ratio of 18O to 16O is in fact the most important determining
variable: which is predictive of excess heat in LENR experiments (or a
particular class of experiment), then where does that leave us?
We must consider both the implications of excess energy which derives
from nuclear isomerism, and/or mirror matter, and/or other
possibilities- including the idea that the excess energy in 18O is
somehow translated to the deuterium to enhance fusion.
When Horace suggests:
This alone would make fusion more probable.
One assumes that he is referring there to the mirror matter being
attached to deuterium... and that would be the simplest possibility but
almost impossible to distinguish statistically.
... but if and when 18O is found to be the determining variable, then
fusion enhancement of D2 due to deuterium-mirror-matter becomes a
less-likely route. There still could be an energy transfer between
closely spaced nuclei, or else NO nuclear fusion at all (except
incidental)- with the excess heat coming entirely from metastability.
This all gets very complicated and sticky. Perhaps it is best to wait
and see if there is any statistical correlation between excess energy in
LENR experiments - with this isomer ratio: 18O/16O -- before even
venturing off on that course.
Jones
