A curious addenda to all of this from the Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydberg_matter
seems to be ... that from looking at the references and the dates - it appears that Holmlid's earliest publications were in the same time frame as Mills' earliest, but that the general subject goes back pre-Mills, so that we cannot give automatically RM credit for the insight ** if ** LENR does eventually turn out to be the QM outcome of Rydberg matter. Did it really take all of these 20 years to finally come around to this realization, or is there more ? Another curious factoid, wouldn't you know it? Miley has coauthored with Holmlid. L. Holmlid, H. Hora, G. Miley and X. Yang, "Ultrahigh-density deuterium of Rydberg matter clusters for inertial confinement fusion targets"... Therefore, the Arata connection and pycno- must surely be known (at least to Miley) ... but it is still worth writing to Holmlid to see what if any response will be forthcoming, and whether he will acknowledges the work of either Mills or Arata. Jones -----Original Message----- From: mix...@bigpond.com >http://www2.chem.gu.se/staff/leif_holmlid.html No it isn't "Pycnodeuterium" under a different name. It's Mills' (ian). Pycnodeuterium comprises intermeshed tetrahedrons of nuclei and electrons. Mills model uses circular atoms. This is essentially the Bohr model, but has since the discovery of circular orbitals post QM become known as Rydberg atoms. "Inverse" Rydberg atoms is a dead ringer for Mills (or my model) depending on the specifics of the method of "inverting" the atom (actually inverting the quantum number to a create fractional states). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
