In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:39:42 -0500: Hi, [snip] > > >On 12/09/2009 03:54 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: >> In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:09:30 >> -0500: >> Hi, >> [snip] >>> However, from the >>> reported excess heat and from strongly correlated helium >>> measurements, I consider it well established that the primary nuclear >>> ash is helium, and that the primary fuel, the starting point, is deuterium. >> [snip] >> The only reason for the existing hot fusion branching ratios is conservation >> of >> momentum in a two particle reaction. If a third particle is available to >> share >> the momentum, but doesn't actually take part in the nuclear reaction, then D >> + D >> can fuse directly to He4. > >This is a variant on coupling to the lattice, is it not? In this case >the heavy atom might be seen as acting as a proxy for the whole lattice. >
Yes, in sense I guess it is, though I think the proximity to the heavy nucleus is important in that it shortens the speed of light time to about 1E-20 seconds which is at least in the ball park for nuclear reactions. IOW I think it makes sharing the momentum more likely. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
