--- Horace Heffner wrote: > "Searching for Cosmic Matter" at: > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/CosmicSearch.pdf > has been very slightly updated.
One of the most interesting implications of "cosmic matter" - even if it ultimately defined differently than the Foot/Heffner speculations, relates directly to LENR. How so? you ask.... It goes back to that issue of non-reproducibility of experimental results "on demand". IOW the irregular results of excess heat or transmutation products, which is almost always seen in CF cells, may be the direct result of a previously undefined type of matter or material, which has an affinity for the various electrode materials which often "work" in these cells (but not all the time) and which contaminating material is not detectable by normally accepted methods. One need only look as far as Canada to understand why. Almost all the palladium, platinum and nickel consumed in the USA at one time came from the mining district at Sudbury, Ontario. Now much of it comes from Russia and elsewhwere, but of similar origin (meteorites). Sometime in prehistory, all of this nickel and other elements was alien to earth, part of an large chunk of space matter which blasted into Ontario. This massive and rich ore body was discovered during railroad building and then later in 1902 by Thomas Edison in Falconbridge. Edison was unsuccessful in establishing a mining operation, and abandoned his original claim in 1903. For a smart guy, Edison made as many ghastly economic mistakes as anyone on the planet but succeeded in the end. The 1.85-billion year old meteorite impact crater at Sudbury contains hugely profitable amounts of many rare elements especially transition metals, including palladium and platinum as well as nickel. It might also contain some larger amounts of cosmic matter from its extraterrestrial origin, which was not uniformly concentrated, after the impact. Consequently some electrode palladium may contain it in ppm or less quantities, and other batches may not. Wild as this idea may seem, I ask you: is there any hypothesis which fits the circumstances of LENR non-reproducibility better than a "hidden" component of the electrodes? Jones BTW there are ways to test this hypothesis. Like everything else in this endeavor, the main drawback i$ you-know-what...
